She works all day. Cleaning, sweeping, cooking, bringing water and firewood into the house. Running after the kids. And what else? Time for a sit-down with her book, a cup of tea from the good porcelain teapot, and shoes off and onto the footwarmer. Aaahhhhh, that feels good!

Unknown subject, but she is telling us a story about domestic life in the first quarter of the 19th century. Continental, Netherlands, France, or ?

12" x 9.5" overall; 8.5" x 6.5" sight. In her original birds-eye frame.