{"product_id":"antique-double-oil-painting-house-summer-winter-1870","title":"Antique Double Oil Painting House in Summer and Winter, Circa 1870","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAntique paired oil paintings, one house across two seasons. The left panel shows the garden deep in snow in 1871, a fir weighed down with white, bare fruit trees against a brick wall, the house behind shuttered against the cold. The right panel is the same house and garden in summer 1870, green lawn, flower beds in bloom, a figure on the path, shutters thrown open. One painter recorded the same view twice, a year apart, and framed the two together as a record of a single place through the turning year. Oil on panel, Continental European, unsigned but dated on both panels in the artist's hand. The kind of personal topographical record that was never made for sale, only to hold onto a specific house and garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Unknown artist, Continental European\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | Unsigned. Each panel dated in the lower right in the artist's hand, the summer panel 1870 and the winter panel 1871\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | The same house and walled garden painted in two seasons, summer and winter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European, likely French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Antique, dated 1870 and 1871\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Panel Size | 12 in. W x 8 in. H, each panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 27.5 in. W x 11.5 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Two panels framed together as a pair, side by side in a single surround\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Period giltwood frame with beaded inner course, striped reeded liner, and a carved leaf-and-berry outer molding\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | Topographical, seasonal pair\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBoth panels are stable and read well, with the paint film intact across the surfaces. The winter panel carries thick impasto in the snow that stands up off the surface as the artist laid it. The summer panel is darker in the foliage with the varnish gone amber, which deepens the greens. Both dates are clearly legible in the lower right. The panels are set into a single period frame and the reverses are not accessible without removing them, so I am describing what is visible from the front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame shows its age. There is gesso loss and chipping at the outer corners, rubbing along the high points of the carved molding, and small stable cracks in the giltwood. The striped liner is worn in places. The frame presents as a genuine period surround with honest wear rather than a restored or replaced one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#44\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482657030422,"sku":"AMD-03482","price":880.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-7862.jpg?v=1785177552","url":"https:\/\/austynmariedesign.com\/products\/antique-double-oil-painting-house-summer-winter-1870","provider":"Austyn Marie Design","version":"1.0","type":"link"}