Doing your best to be of the Ancient time when you are living in 1840s France. Genre paintings by Dominique Louis Papety. Living from 1815 to 1849, he is best known for his canvases and drawings on Greek themes. Studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

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Greek Women at the Fountain. 1841. French. 1839-1840. Oil on canvas. Dominique Louis Papety, painter (1815-1849). Painted during the painter’s stay at the Villa Medici between 1837 and 1842, exhibited at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris in August 1840. Signed DOM. PAPETY. ROMA on the bottom right. Collections of the Fabre Museum. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Papety-Femmes-%C3%A0-la-fontaine.JPG and https://www.instagram.com/p/C_ppMbjoeWV/?hl=en
Greek Women at a Fountain. 1841. French. Oil on canvas. Dominique Louis Papety, painter (1815-1849). Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures. Image source: the Louvre Collection. Cc0 License 3.0. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Femmes_grecques_%C3%A0_la_fontaine.jpg
Femmes à la fontaine. 1840-1841. French. Gouache. Dominique Louis Papety, painter (1815-1849). Signed DOM. PAPETY on the bottom left. Collections of the Fabre Museum. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dominique_Louis_Papety_-_Femmes_%C3%A0_la_fontaine_-_c_1840-41_-_Fabre_Museum.jpg
Altar of the Heavens. Undated watercolor, by 1849. Dominique Louis Papety, painter (1815-1849). Collections of the Fabre Museum. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://fineartamerica.com/featured/altar-of-the-heavens-dominique-louis-papety.html

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