C. 1840s French Maison Berville Full Box of "Venetian" Charcoal Sticks display stand minor and not detracting

minor and not detracting

and all sorts of impasto for the trees and bushes

) And the paint on these

Once a common practice in southeast Asia

But one can see a little house and maybe a church with steeple too on the far horizon

C. 1840s French Maison Berville Full Box of "Venetian" Charcoal Sticks display stand minor and not detractingThese is a scarce French box of "Venetian" charcoal sticks, distribued by the Maison Berville in Paris and dating to about 1840; I found one box of them just like this in the digital collection of the Huntington Library. I've got a thing for antique art supplies (so romantic feeling, and as embodiments of creative potential) and for French paper labels, too, and what is purer more immediate and essential feeling than a box full of charcoal twigs? Rich