Double Portrait, Artist at His Easel, Very Fine and Slightly Eerie French 1841 Watercolor sound making boxes with a hand-painted face

with a hand-painted face

This rare original color plate comes from an atlas by René Henri Digeon of plates for color matching

marking the soaring achievement of 792 feet worth of skyscraper

It stands up on its own

Double Portrait, Artist at His Easel, Very Fine and Slightly Eerie French 1841 Watercolor sound making boxes with a hand-painted faceI was completely taken with this one when I spotted it online, sold by a dealer in France then eagerly awaited its arrival for several weeks, with hopes it would be as good and I thought it was, and it is. Perhaps a study for what would be a large oil painting, though very finely rendered in watercolor by an artist clearly in command of the medium. I'm a sucker for a portrait of an artist at his, or her, easel, actual or proverbial, and absolutely