Antique French Portrait Miniature in Leather Etui, Case, c.1835-45 Beautiful Woman w Cameo scent caddy We haven’t opened this one

We haven’t opened this one

Here are a rare pair of hand painted and artist signed portraits on thin natural wafer wafer: a French military officer and his wife

far worse condition than those that we offer

One is chipped and needs to be replaced if you want them even more perfect than they are

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Antique French Portrait Miniature in Leather Etui, Case, c.1835-45 Beautiful Woman w Cameo scent caddy We haven’t opened this oneJust as the 1830s transitioned with the Coronation in England of Queen Victoria, c. 1837, and the styles returned to more modest and high collared, buttoned up and less revealing, and double and triple parted hairstyles were all in vogue, this beautiful young woman put on her best gown and her cameo and sat for her portrait. Perhaps a wedding portrait, the cameo her honeymoon Grand Tour souvenir of Italy and the miniature painting, which is most