Stone Fruit Ripe Pear and Ripening Plum with Great Color - Sold Individually medium soft pencils which I think only enhance

which I think only enhance the gorgeous green and red paint of the exterior

by French astronomer Warren de la Rue during the total solar eclipse in 1860--and how beautiful they are

Another beautiful old brush

with the sullen subject reluctantly sitting for the portrait

Stone Fruit Ripe Pear and Ripening Plum with Great Color - Sold Individually medium soft pencils which I think only enhanceThe more I look, the more I've become certain that I'm not going to tire of old stone fruit any time soon, and I've become quite a keen inspector of pieces, looking (in person) at many dozens of specimens to pick out a few choice fruits! (There is a big difference between carefully carved and hand painted old ones and less subtle newer examples where you can see color was sprayed on.) So here are two just found in Maine that more than pass muster a