Aubepine

girl in front of a flowering tree

The New York Times (April  29, 1895): Daniel Ridgway Knight, from Philadelphia, has a pretty rustic scene, catalogued “L’Aubepine,” (“The Hawthorn.” A sweet-faced peasant maid has put down her water pot, and is gathering a bunch of hawthorn from a blossoming bush, which fills the right half of the canvas. The white mass of flowers…

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