Morning Chores Gold Silver & Bronze looking back to the 1880s

looking back to the 1880s rather than the 1920s when it was probably painted

probably the last of her kind at work in Europe

dying tragically of pneumonia at only 48

A miraculous journey and tantalising to think whose hands these have been through

Morning Chores Gold Silver & Bronze looking back to the 1880sThis is a wonderful image, a hangover from the era of Victorian genre paintings but a very modern painting for 1889. More of a transitional style, it could easily have been painted in the early twentieth century. The pose of the model is very natural, seemingly unposed in fact. The unconscious way in which she goes about her chores is beguiling, and the light is masterly. Even more impressive that Rnquist painted this while still a student of twenty