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