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FIFTY YEARS AFTER

Creator(s): Oreste Costa (Painter)

Currently in storage


About this object

Painting shows a genre scene. There is an elderly couple seated at a table. The man is at the left. He is toothless, with a gray beard, and wears a tattered straw hat, patched gray shirt and vest. He is holding the chin of the woman who holds a wine bottle in her left hand and a tumbler in her right. She wears a blue head kerchief, orange neck kerchief and red dress. her hair is in a braid and she wears small gold earrings. On the wooden table is a bowl with salad, with a fork resting on the edge. There is a knife, cut onion and crumbled bread also on the table. To the left on the wall is a torn paper picture.

Object name:
FIFTY YEARS AFTER
Made from:
Oil on canvas
Made in:
Florence, Italy
Date made:
19th c.
Size:
69.9 x 104.1 cm (27 1/2 x 41 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
51.177
Class:
PAINTING
Signature marks:
SIGNATURE upper right corner: O. Costa Firenze
Credit line:
Gift of General Foods, 1978