Antique Salvaged Oil on Canvas Still Life of Fruit and Pitcher antique ashanti weight 6 3/4” heel to toe

6 3/4” heel to toe

I find it quite an elegant piece

I especially love the face of the figure and hat held high in a wave to us

Colored pencil and pastel on paper

and the hands

Antique Salvaged Oil on Canvas Still Life of Fruit and Pitcher antique ashanti weight 6 3/4” heel to toeYum yum! This 19th c. oil on canvas painting has been through it, for sure unevenly cut from its stretcher at some point, and with a mend to the back of the canvas and a few other rough patches. But what a luminous still life of some very beautiful fruit it remains, with the pink glow of that watermelon completely doing it for me. I'd be inclined to pin it to the wall from the top corners just as its close enough to taste it! but certainly it could be