Antique oil on canvas by Italian artist, Stefano Novo signed in the lower left.  A charming and unusual Art Nouveau portrait of a woman sewing within the context of a landscape background.
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Medium: Oil on canvas
Overall size: 17ins x 22ins or 43cms x 56cms (Approx)
Date: Late 1800's
Signed: Stefano Novo (1862-1947)   Novo was an Italian painter, born in Cavarzere, Venice, he studied under Italian masters Pompelmo Gherardo Molmenti and Eugene von Blass.  Best known for his romantic figurative, portraiture and genre paintings depicting the daily lives of the Venetian people, Novo exhibited his work in Turin, Florence, Venice, Bologna and Chicago.
One of Stefano Novo's students was also Jenny Eakin Delony Rice, who studied with hime in Venice sometime prior to 1895.  She was the first woman artist from Arkansas to rise to national and international prominence as a painter and the founder of collegiate art education in Arkansas. Though Delony specialized in portraiture, her subject matter included miniatures, landscape, wildlife, still life and genre (scenes of everyday life).
Condition:  This painting has not travelled through time without scars, it has renovations and comes without a frame.   
This painting is sent track and trace with Colissimo/Chronopost