Bénédiction des maisons, Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne, 1825-1829 (circa)

In a large kitchen, a priest in a vestment, attended by a boy similarly attired who holds a basket, blesses a country house as he waves incense (?) at food laid out on a white cloth on a table, a large metal vessel with food close by on the stone floor, on the other side of the table, two women, modestly dressed and wearing a hat and bonnet respectively, and a woman servant in front of an oven, to left two others, one holding a spindle, another standing in a doorway; over the table a hanging basket levered close to a wooden beam on the ceiling, in the foreground to left a pile of logs and a branch in a pile, to right a window with shutter, the room equipped with basic furniture and vessels; after granet lithograph on buff chine collé. Date: 1825-1829 (circa). Dimensions: Height: 258 mm (image); Width: 350 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Bénédiction des maisons (BM 1860,0728.257)