Breton Girl Looking After Plants in the Hothouse  1884

In Anna Petersen’s day women were not allowed to vote, nor to enrol at the Academy of Fine Arts. The artist has shown this woman engaged in thought rather than labour, thereby manifesting how women are independent, thinking beings in their own right. [br] [b]Replanting[/b] The girl looking after plants in a hothouse is not, in fact, looking after anything while she is ...