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Description
4 1/2" (11 cm.) x 3" painting. 9" x 7" frame. A
rich oil painting on board depicts two fashionable
young girls in a park-like setting with an
arrangement of little houses and trees that they
are arranging in a village scene; one tree has
tipped over and one little girl is daintily
holding her skirt as leans to right the tree. The
tiny scene is remarkable for its detail of
costumes,fabrics,facial expressions,and even
architectural details of the toy houses. The
artist,Luigi Loir,has lettered the name of his
scene,"Un Village",in the lower corner. The French
artist,Luigi Loir,whose genre paintings of Paris
street scenes,earned him a Medaille d'Or at the
1889 Paris International Exposition,created a
series of these superb miniature paintings of
children with their toys and dolls.