Old Masters

Antiques shop in Venice. In the foreground is a pavement, a toy horse, a basket of fruit and a cat with two rats? Behind, a group of three women and two young girls converse outside an antiques shop. The shop has an arched window with ornate metalwork and an open doorway. Displayed outside the shop is an aviary, a candlestick, a side table, a coffee pot?, a picture frame, plates, jars and religious icons, the latter including paintings depicting saints, a Madonna and child, the Last Supper, the Crucifixion and the Flight into Egypt? Through the doorway sits the antique dealer, reading, in front of shelves containing various artefacts. Foreground and top left largely unworked. Dense cross hatching used for darker tones of interior