This attractive painting is by the Sicilian artist Francesco Netti (1832-1894). He seems to have been quite celebrated in his day, though I'd never heard of him before I tracked him down on Google images. I love the informal domesticity of this scene.
Amazon
Georges Simenon: Maigret Goes to School: Inspector Maigret #44
McCarthy, Helen: Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood
- Robert Goddard: Painting the Darkness
- Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge
- Tana French: The Searcher
Mills, Sam: The Fragments of my Father: A Memoir of Madness, Love and Being a Carer
My Books
Harriet Devine: Looking Back: Playwrights at the Royal Court, 1956-2006
Harriet Devine Jump: Nineteenth Century Short Stories by Women: A Routledge Anthology
Harriet Devine Jump: Women's Writing of the Victorian Period 1837-1901: An Anthology
Harriet Devine Jump: Women's Writing of the Romantic Period, 1789-1836: An Anthology
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