Charming Old Pied Piper Tempera Painting on Brown Paper woodgrain to the winding path into

to the winding path into the distance glimpsed through the window

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and reads as much as a tabletop minimalist sculpture as a folk art carving

and certainly not for everyone

as I found one

Charming Old Pied Piper Tempera Painting on Brown Paper woodgrain to the winding path intoI found this wonderful old painting tempera, I believe, on brown paper bag or craft paper in a very dirty old frame where it was taped to piece of cardboard and starting to deteriorate, but I loved it so much there was no way I was not going to rescue it! You can see that the area around the top of his shirt and right arm shows loss and is quite fragile; I've just set it atop a new sheet of cardboard to stabilize it for the time being, but best would