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Peasant Women from Ragusa

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Date

1826

Artist

Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Description

Inscribed in graphite in upper center of recto: "shoe worn by all slaves of the South. It is made of sheepskin with straps"
Inscribed in graphite at upper right corner of recto:"fleurs a l'oreille"
Inscribed in graphite at left center margin of recto: "tablier en tapissirie sur le ventre- an apron covering the stomach"
Inscribed in graphite at bottom of recto: "Femmes de Raguse (paysannes) herzogovnie, Le soulier l'opanke commoune a tous les slaves du Sud depuis Trieste jusque'a... [?]... il est forme d'une peau de mouton attaché de lines."
Inscribed in pen and brown ink at bottom center of recto: "Le voile A est en soie blanche"
Inscribed in graphite at upper center of verso: "Les [indecipherable] en Francais sont ou [indecipherable]"
Inscribed in pen and brown ink in upper left of verso: "1889 6038 H"
Inscribed in graphite in center of verso: "Blame"
Inscribed in graphite in center of verso: "Marcel".

Image Licence

CC0 1.0

Image Credit

image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Location

Dubrovnik, Croatia

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People & Society

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