The external circumstances are greatly different.

It would have been a great privilege to be the mistress of an old time-honoured mansion, to call oaks and elms her own, to know that acres of gardens were submitted to her caprices, to look at herds of cows and oxen, and be aware that they lowed on her own pastures.

Machines for unhairing and green shaving hides and skins.

The application of paint in both compositions shows the use of a layering technique in the flesh tones and garments and the alla prima technique in the background.