Wealth of the Soil, study for lunette by Louis Schaettle

A painted study in a semicircular lunette format shows a seated woman in a blue headscarf holding a cornucopia-like vessel, flanked by a standing woman in a white robe with a laurel wreath and a kneeling figure gathering white cotton bolls. A bundle of sugarcane or reeds and a man in red stand at right, set against a golden background, with pencil guidelines visible at the edges.

Artist

Louis Schaettle

Date

ca. 1916

Medium

pencil, tempera and watercolor on paperboard

Source

Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Size

2296 × 1318 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum