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Title: strange picture
Post by: sugarcube5419 on March 24, 2015, 11:27:47 AM

tells a story for sure-but I don't know it do you?

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: sugarcube5419 on March 24, 2015, 11:29:21 AM

semi close up

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: sugarcube5419 on March 24, 2015, 11:30:57 AM

another

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: fancypants on March 24, 2015, 11:39:16 AM

I don't know this one by heart , but the 'bringing in the sheaves' & harvest-time motif should ring some bells , somewhere ....

Is there an artists' sig on this item , sugarcube5419 ?

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: sugarcube5419 on March 24, 2015, 11:42:33 AM

hi fancy-

no signature and it's encased on the back--I'll look that up...looked like an awful time...

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: sugarcube5419 on March 24, 2015, 11:44:38 AM

plus I hate to admit it but I always thought it was bringing in the sheep--I really don't know my art or folk songs fancy

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: fancypants on March 24, 2015, 11:47:25 AM

That gave me a chuckle , sc ! :D

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: sugarcube5419 on March 24, 2015, 11:48:00 AM

do you think it may be signed under the picture glass?

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: fancypants on March 24, 2015, 11:52:18 AM

It might be hidden beneath the matting , or even notated on the back of the item (painting/litho/print?) .

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: sugarcube5419 on March 24, 2015, 11:58:23 AM

it's encased  but what the heck I'll live crazy and open it

I'll let you know in a second

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: sugarcube5419 on March 24, 2015, 12:13:13 PM

clear as mud fancy-it's a hard piece of "cardboard"-and now I put my camera down and can't take a pic for you-no autograph-

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: sugarcube5419 on March 24, 2015, 12:18:49 PM

found my camera here;'s some new pics

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: sugarcube5419 on March 24, 2015, 12:23:45 PM

another question--the colors are spotty at best-like you know the wheat(?) is yellow but it's just a lighter color-some of the guys shirts are almost pink=it's just not anything I know

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: fancypants on March 24, 2015, 04:10:33 PM

Just found one , exact to yours , while using the search terms 'antique euro harvest paintings' at commons.wikimedia.o rg , sugarcube5419 .

Still no clue as to date of the original , or the artist .

The posted image on wiki was much more vivid & bright than yours , so perhaps sun/light fading has happened to your item .

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: sugarcube5419 on March 24, 2015, 04:27:26 PM

fancy-I am looking at mine-when the matt was put on it covered the edges--yes it has suffered lots of sun damage--

and phew it stinks inside..

I never would have thought to put that string of words together.  I'll search more thanks

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: Pelady on March 24, 2015, 06:22:14 PM

Great harvest scene!  Is it a print? 
Thinking about the Time period of the original:  Most paintings were of the rich or religious themes until the 16th century. The guy exhausted sleeping with his pants open.  The pants with the drop front style says 15th or 16th Century.
PeLady

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: Rauville on March 24, 2015, 07:50:02 PM

Here you go...
http://art-landscape.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-corn-harvest-by-pieter-bruegel-elder.html (http://art-landscape.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-corn-harvest-by-pieter-bruegel-elder.html)

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: sugarcube5419 on March 24, 2015, 08:35:41 PM

thank you all esp rauville for finding the name of it, it looks like a really primitive time - again appreciate everyone's time.

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: fancypants on March 25, 2015, 12:05:40 PM

Good one there , Rauville !

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: sugarcube5419 on March 25, 2015, 02:15:51 PM

lithographic print on medium-weight, lightly coated stock  1957

mine has huge sun damage and I think lots of smoke.

Still tells such a story-glad I'm not there.

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: mart on March 25, 2015, 07:35:08 PM

I saw that print  back in the 50`s when I was a kid !!  I think it was at a shop somewhere !!  I thought it was a little spooky !! Looked to me like the guy lying down was dead !! Couldn`t figure out why they just left him there !!

Title: Re: strange picture
Post by: sugarcube5419 on March 25, 2015, 08:41:53 PM

Glad to see you mart.

and that made me laugh--yes they all look hot sweaty and unhappy one way or another.