Woman Carrying Load Through Landscape, Antique on Board Painting Signed WS dotted which looks very smart and

which looks very smart and super graphic against the black paper ground

9 1/8" x 6 1/4" x 1 3/8"

with no tears or folds or other issues at all

Bright and crisp and sound and sturdy

Woman Carrying Load Through Landscape, Antique on Board Painting Signed WS dotted which looks very smart andI read this painting as portraying a figure (whom I take for a woman) carrying a load (looks like bundle of kindling, maybe more) across her back through a winter landscape. The interruption in the bank of trees in the distance, precisely aligned with her position in the foreground, suggests that may be her path rather than to arrive at home at the house at right but either way this feels like a portrait of a place and rural life defined by the