PAIR Antique French Portrait Miniatures, Drawings & Watercolor on Card, Frame French enamel Judging from the small holes

Judging from the small holes in the sides of the bases

She's a handsome young woman in fine French Empire fashion

(varnish layering with paint) which was the favorite of French Queen Marie-Antoinette

of thanksgiving for the makings of the day's meal

PAIR Antique French Portrait Miniatures, Drawings & Watercolor on Card, Frame French enamel Judging from the small holesA charming pair of drawings, hand colored in watercolor on card (thick heavy paper) and framed in mid 1800s French ebonized frames, these two gentile older women might be sisters, grandmothers, maiden aunts they're certainly related in a manner that could simply include being captured by the same artist. An unusual manner of miniature, these are wonderful small drawings, works of art charming and intimate. Each in 3 4 view seated pose in interiors