paulkyriakides

I got the fright of my life today, i was clearing out the garadge on a property that we purchased 3 years ago and was about to throw out what looked like an old piece of canvas wrapped in plastic when my wife said that it looked like a painting. So we carefully unwrapped what seems to be a very old oil painting of 3 women and two swans, can somebody please help me to identify it.

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saintmarc

See also :
http://www.artconversation.com/quest...ing-swans.html
I already answered to this question in another forum and resume here only for interested members.
Certainly a copy from the years 1870/1900 after the 1840 "Schwäne fütternde Mädchen" (Ladies feeding swans) by August Ferdinand Hopfgarten. The painting was in the collection of the king of Prussia and very famous in this time but it is absolutely impossible to find on the net as well as the three (at least) engravings or lithographs made after the original
:1-Carl Wildt (some runs on china paper)
2-E.Meyer
3-Victor Dollet
I am very interested and hope a present or future member could provide an image.
http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=...og&sa=N&tab=wi