Description:
Portrait of a girl with apple also known as The Red Apple, by artist James Wells Champney (1843-1903), signed in lower left in red paint "CHAMP 75", gilt period frame. Size: 22 1/4" x 18-1/4". A young girl in a red skirt and black apron with a grey blouse and a white neckerchief sits upon the ground with a large woven basket strapped to her back, she sits in a green glade of trees, and offers an apple to an unseen person in the foreground. Condition: Extensive stable craquelure, loss to red pigment on girl's skirt, no evidence of retouching under ultraviolet light.

Tags:
portraits; trees; girls; harvesting

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