1900 Mo Wainwright Reverse Glass Fox Hunt Painting Babies This famous heritage Hermes scarf

This famous heritage Hermes scarf known as Chasse au Bois or Hunt in the Woods

the largest flying bird in North America with and impressive wingspan of 10 feet from tip to tip

Napoleon seized control of much of Europe

finished with a luxurious frill

it reflects Hubley’s reputation for creating some of the finest American decorative ironwork of the early twentieth century

1900 Mo Wainwright Reverse Glass Fox Hunt Painting Babies This famous heritage Hermes scarfEach of these reverse glass paintings features a finished image of a formal 19th and early 20th century English fox hunt. The technique involves paint on the back of a transparent glass surface that when viewed from the front is luminous. Artists work in reverse order, painting details like highlights first and backgrounds last, building up the image from foreground to background, and often use prints as guides, tracing them on the glass and then