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Fair-Good overall antique cond: For sale is this very intriguing, mid-19th c American folk art, antique primitive O/C painting, found unframed & with craquelure & surface crazing of the oil paint due to the effects of intervals of summer heat & winter cold, causing the oil paint film to slightly expand & contract. The scene is a typical mid-19th c scene, depicting a fantastic, dream-like, exotic mountain landscape, possibly a perceived or imagined European landscape, unseen by the painter or an embellishment from an existing print. The image portrays the sea w/steep, rugged mountains abruptly rising in the background. Not one but 2 sailboats populate the surface of the water w/the ruins of ancient buildings, populating the foreground & mountain tops. 2 figures, a man & a woman, can be seen in conversation under an ancient carved stone arch near the water's edge. Vegetation & wispy, leaning trees punctuate the water's edge. There are no tears or canvas repairs. Nice. |