Woman Eating Hemp, 18th Century

‘La Corderie: Femme Mangeant du Chanvre’ (The Ropeworks: Woman Eating Hemp),  by Jean Baptiste Huët (1745-1811)

 

 

oil on canvas

 

 

Watercolor with pen and ink

 

 

 

“O, she’s warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.”

– William Shakespeare