Nabis-Style - Watercolour Study for Wall Frieze

A beautiful and softly painted design for a Frieze, circa. late 19th/early 20th century. The floral motifs and bucolic setting relate the work to the style of the Nabis, a French group of painters who emphasised the decorative and symbolic in their work and focused on nostalgic, pastoral scenes. The depiction of a figure playing the lyre gives the work a classical feeling.