Observations on Visual Art

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Observations: Big white building in the background, every window has curtains, two people (woman and man probably husband and wife), the man is wearing a white shirt covered in a black jacket, the man is holding a pitchfork, the man is balding and seems elderly, he is wearing glasses, the woman is completely covered in 3 different visible layers, her hair is up, the man is looking at you but the woman is looking away, there is a red barn-like house in the background, behind the houses are a lot of trees, the woman is slightly standing behind the man.

Inferences: I think that the setting is on a farm, I think their religious because of the way they are dressed and because they look like they're from the 19th century a time period where religion was very important, i think they are married because there is one house in the background and by the way they are both in the same portrait.

Interpretations:  I think the artist was, had a connection to, or had an interest in farmers in the nineteenth century, I think the artist was trying to say something by making the woman be slightly behind the man and having the woman being looking away.