Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Breton girl tending plants

Breton girl tending plants

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Original – Breton girl looking after plants in a hothouse (Danish: Bretagne-pige ordner planter i et drivhus), 1884. Don't even attempt the Danish title unless you've had a few drinks (or you are Danish). Petersen took a subject that was traditionally thought appropriate for women to paint, horticulture, and used it as the setting for her real subject, the Breton girl (described as "looking like a bit of a psycho" by non-reliable sources, and "with a inner life of great strength" by more reliable ones)

Reason

Interesting painting by a underknown (yes, I made that word up; so what?) Danish female artist (nominating a work by a Danish female artist, Belle? You are so unpredictable.), demonstrating in its choice of subject matter the growing confidence of Danish women painters around Petersen's time.

Articles in which this image appears

Anna Petersen, National Gallery of Denmark

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Anna Petersen

• Support as nominator – Belle (talk) 12:19, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support – For aesthetics, and EV for a relatively little-known artist. Odd that this is the only painting of hers on Commons. Sca (talk) 14:19, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support - per Sca (and high quality image).--Godot13 (talk) 22:22, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Tremonist (talk) 12:51, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Yann (talk) 09:02, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Bretagne-pige ordner planter i et drivhus.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:20, 21 September 2015 (UTC)