19th C. Oil on Board Peaches Still Life prison art box for Gifts and Open House/Auction

for Gifts and Open House/Auction that I found along with it

Found the other day in New Hampshire and I would think 19th c

And then this little green steamboat

some remnants of which remain here and there

as if she were about to pull her partner closer

19th C. Oil on Board Peaches Still Life prison art box for Gifts and Open House/AuctionI love an antique still life painting of fruit, and this pile of peaches with purple fig at right was beautifully executed, with a richness perfectly befitting ripe peaches! It hasn't been cleaned, and is a somewhat dark, but get it in the right light and those peaches are luminous! (Of course one could have it cleaned, but I personally like the aura and atmospherics of it just as it is, as if painted in candlelight to begin with and meant to be