Large Silk and Metallic Needlework Picture of Ruth and Boaz

English or French, 19th century, silk worked with silk thread, metallic thread, and paint, featuring the Biblical scene of Boaz encountering Ruth gleaning wheat in his field, the carefully painted sections surrounded by vast embroidered sections of golden wheat and trees worked in metallic and silk thread, mounted to a stretcher, framed under glass in gold-tone plaster frame.

28 x 28 1/2 in. sight, 35 1/2 x 36 x 4 in. frame

Tearing to central portion of sky; discoloration and buckling to sky; brittleness overall; discoloration to edges where mounted; not examined out of frame; frame with major loss and damage.