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This exceptional European textile serves as a rare mourning memorial picture, showcasing a remarkable fusion of artistic mediums. It features a combination of painting, silk cutting, traditional embroidery, and stumpwork technique, creating a poignant scene. The young lady's features are painted in watercolor, surrounded by a background painted in the same medium. Cut silk forms the leaves of trees, while traditional embroidery techniques shape the tombstone, dress, willow tree, and flower bush.
Mounted securely onto the original mahogany backing frame, the main oval frame is also original. The textile is well-protected by recently installed acrylate conservation UV clear, a high-grade plexiglass designed to block almost all UV and resist breakage. Found hanging in a Swiss manor near Morat (Murten) in the district of Bern, the back of the frame holds a handwritten German poem about a young baby's passing in the year of its birth.
Signed on the lower front by a woman named "Wyttenbach" (formerly "Pluss") with the date "1807", it remains in very good condition, with vibrant colors akin to its creation. Some minor, difficult-to-notice damage near the young lady's feet exists. The frame displays cracks and surface paint loss but remains in good condition. The outer dimensions of the frame are 26 inches by 22 inches, while the picture itself measures 18 inches by 21 inches (66 cm x 56 cm and 46 cm x 53 cm respectively).