farm scene folk painting
Farm Scene with Mill Pond
Pennsylvania
c. 1910
oil on canvas on the original strainer
17 3/4" x 23"; in a late 19th century frame, 21 1/4" x 26 1/2"
Provenance: Ruth Troiani Fine Antiques, Farmington, CT; Samuel H. Du Pont (1901-1974); The William K. Du Pont Collection
possibly depicting the Chestnut Blight of the early 20th century that all but wiped out the species of tree in Pennsylvania by 1940.