Lionel Baes (1839–1913), Young Woman Carrying A Sleeping Child, Oil On Canvas

Oil on canvas by Lionel Baes, signed lower left. In front of a house with white walls, a young woman wearing a headscarf carries a sleeping child in her arms, with a bundle of firewood under her arm. She is wearing clogs and stands on a cobblestone floor.

Lionel Baes (Ostend, 1839 – Ixelles, 1913) was a Belgian painter of figures and genre scenes, as well as a landscape painter, portraitist, and etcher. The younger brother of the painter and art critic Edgard Baes, he lived in Brussels. He exhibited at the triennial Salons in Brussels, Ghent, and Antwerp beginning in 1864, directed the Free Academy of Brussels, and painted mythological sets for the theaters in Leuven and Namur. In 1883, he was among the founders of the Circle of Watercolorists and Etchers in Brussels.

Artist: Lionel Baes (1839–1913)
Period: late 19th or early 20th century
Medium: oil on canvas
Signature: “Lionel Baes,” lower left
Dimensions: canvas 61 × 41 cm, frame 76 × 56 cm (height × width)
Condition: historically re-stretched, fine craquelure. Gilded wooden frame with wear to the gilding and small chips, particularly at the corners, visible in the photos.

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