Woman Carrying Load Through Landscape, Antique on Board Painting Signed WS dotted which I believe dates from

which I believe dates from sometime between 1900-1920

with no tears or folds or other issues at all

which looks very smart and super graphic against the black paper ground

though it is unsigned and I am not certain of how old it is

Woman Carrying Load Through Landscape, Antique on Board Painting Signed WS dotted which I believe dates fromI read this painting as portraying a figure (whom I take for a woman) carrying a load (looks like bundle of kindling, maybe more) across her back through a winter landscape. The interruption in the bank of trees in the distance, precisely aligned with her position in the foreground, suggests that may be her path rather than to arrive at home at the house at right but either way this feels like a portrait of a place and rural life defined by the