Double Portrait: Ultra Moody 19th Century Cabinet Photo of a Hanging Miniature Portrait of a Woman lantern pink mouths

pink mouths

and a pair of what I believe are red squirrels at top

5 3/8" long measured beak to tail

I am pretty certain the silk itself measures 5"x7"

Double Portrait: Ultra Moody 19th Century Cabinet Photo of a Hanging Miniature Portrait of a Woman lantern pink mouthsYou know I love a photograph of a painting, especially a portrait a likeness rendered in one form media translated into another, carrying the subject forward, across time. And to my eye this one is pure perfection. Ultra moody, perfect framing of the frame, with a perfect contrast between the clarity of detail on the frame and the painterliness of the portrait. And the ground, which looks likely like velvet, also has a bit of the feeling of skin. I'd