oil on copper rounded in a red velvet mat with gold thread emboidery, set with seed pearls, coloured glass bead, wax portrait medallions and bone fragments, in studded tortoiseshell frame ...
View FRENCH ECOLE, late 18th or early 19th century Portrait of a woman as a nun Pastel on paper and charcoal 47.5 x 37.5 cm (view (Early 19th Century) By French School, 18th Century; Pastel on paper ...
Behind the mighty eighteenth-century wall of the oldest enclosed convent in Poland - Benedictine convent in Staniatki, near Krakow - the life of twelve nuns in their 70s goes on. Despite their age and ...