SOLD 19th C. Reverse Glass Portrait of Woman in Red, White and Blue catherineholm lotus bowl but it is a bit

but it is a bit hard to tell

which I find super satisfying objects

smoothly worn surface

It's just the right scale at a little over a foot across

the sheep and the white sky behind are more thickly painted than the ground around them

SOLD 19th C. Reverse Glass Portrait of Woman in Red, White and Blue catherineholm lotus bowl but it is a bitI find reverse glass paintings pretty magical feeling things, and love the luminosity of this small portrait, with the face of this woman in braids seeming absolutely as if glowing from within. Mid 19th c. continental European and I'd guess French in her red, white and blue. Clearly the painting was once in a frame, with a dark outline left on the glass but I think all the better without it, so as to prop her somewhere with light coming through, which