LARGE 18TH CENTURY PORTRAIT OF A SEAMSTRESS Mirrors Emile Bouche was a renown

Emile Bouche was a renown French frame maker and decorator from the 1930s to the 1950s

Dimensions: 24cm h x 20cm w x 11cm d

Grey Bardiglio marble top

late 19th century

19th Century French country pine work table from an old boulangerie

LARGE 18TH CENTURY PORTRAIT OF A SEAMSTRESS Mirrors Emile Bouche was a renownBeautiful portrait of an Arlesian seamstress at her embroidery work . On her worktable sits a basket of yarns, her needle case and, what appears to be, a number of buttons or perhaps coins in payment for her work. She sits outside with a country vista as her view. Wearing a lace bonnet , pearl earrings and traditional costume of the period, she sits serenely at her sewing, needle and thread in hand. Oil on canvas. Framed in a gilt wood frame of the