Artist: Consuelo Fould (French,1862 – 1927)
Medium: Antique heliogravure on heavy wove paper after the original painting by a Master Engraver.
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower right.
Dimensions: Image Size 7 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 17 x 21 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally framed and matted using all new materials.
A dairy maid returning to the house after a morning visit to the nests, fully satisfied with the condition of the egg which she holds up to the light.
Mademoiselle Consuelo Fould was a French painter. Fould was born in Cologne as the daughter of the actress Josephine Wilhelmine Valérie Simonin, better known under her pseudonym Gustave Haller, and Gustave Fould. She was adopted along with her sister, the painter Georges Achille Fould, by the Prince Stirbey. She was a pupil of Antoine Vollon and Léon Comerre and exhibited at the Paris Salon. Consuelo Fould married the Marquis de Grasse. She was the founder of the Museum Roybet Fould in Courbevoie. She died in Paris. One of her paintings was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.