Antique French Portrait Miniature, Handsome Young Man w Mutton Chops #2, c.1830s soupier The needlework panel is superb

The needlework panel is superb

It's not loose

The old tole painting is in very nice form with very little loss

There is an ever so slight upward bend to the lid panel but it still closes and locks

or to incorporate into a pillow top for one of those luxuriant down-filled decorator sofa or throw pillows

Antique French Portrait Miniature, Handsome Young Man w Mutton Chops #2, c.1830s soupier The needlework panel is superbI feel certain this is a brother to another portrait miniature we've just sold, from the same estate and in the same silk velvet covered frame. The mutton chop sideburns were fashionable c. 1830, which is when this young man's portrait would have been made. A tall collar coat with black tie and what appears to be a garnet brooch at lapel, his hair swept up in the manner popular in his youth. Nearly 200 years ago, this young man lived and loved