What is this image?

[jtw1313]

Anyone recognize this image from anywhere

 

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[creskol]

That's a wonderful image .. no idea as to the who's, what's, when's, and where's, but I sure do like it!

 

[galenrog]

The tools are common versions of both scythe and rake. The person depicted is either going to or returning from harvest of a crop for which these tools were used.

Time for more coffee.

 

[coinman123]

Beautiful photo, it really captures another time in history. I would guess based on the photo itself and the frame that it is probably somewhere around 1910-1930.

 

[namxat]

Such Sepia toned images were popular in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century. Handtools would fit in this time.

I can not say much else:

A cropped willow: Popular in the Netherlands, northern Germany and likely many areas else. A sign that his particular piece of land is fairly moist.

An area were animals were kept and feed in barns likley.

I wish I would have seen that particular hat before, likely a good clue about time and area.

Have you tried to take it out of the frame to see if a date or name is on?

Greets Namxat

 

[Rookster]

Very nice picture.

 

[jtw1313]

I took it out not seeing any info

 

[Clay Diggins]

It's not a photo. It's a black and white rotogravure paper print reproduced from a well known painting. I was thinking the artist was Edouard Manet but that doesn't feel quite right. I have a large earlier print that includes the whole painting in my collection, I'll look at it the next time I'm in the stacks and see who the artist was.

I believe the trees are mulberry that have been pollarded. Willow are commonly pollard in Germany and Zeeland but the thick convoluted trunk indicates mulberry rather than willow. That would tend to put the scene in a more southern clime like France.

This was a very popular nostalgic piece around the turn of the century. Most of these prints date from the 1880 - 1915 period. Your frame would point to that era too.

 

[kenstein]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/518369276/vintage-art-on-paper-19th-century-farmer Found it on etsy, but it doesn't say who the artist was

 

[Red-Coat]

For @jtw1313, if he sees it.

This is copied from a painting titled “End of Day” by the French artist Louis Emile Adan (1839-1937). His work was heavily reproduced as prints.