SOLD Woman and Bird, Very Finely Done Small 19th C. Oil on Tin Boudoir Painting family portraits there is a 5" drop

there is a 5" drop from the handles to the top of the bag

rosy cheeked young woman seems to me quietly heroic

3 7/8" tall

likely first half of the 20th century

including for the fact that the verse itself speaks to having empathy and forgiving faults

SOLD Woman and Bird, Very Finely Done Small 19th C. Oil on Tin Boudoir Painting family portraits there is a 5" dropLove at first sight with this one, though I did then take out a magnifier to examine most every inch of it, as it was so precisely done (oil on tin) I almost didn't believe it was a painting. I've been thinking some about paintings of women and birds of late (there is a fantastic Morris Hirshfield painting recently shown at the American Folk Art Museum of a woman lying on a sofa facing a bird and appearing as if about to feed it from her mouth) and