Fine Antique French Portrait Miniature, c.1700s, Gentleman in Powdered Wig evening purse There are a few small

There are a few small chips to the top floral finials but no structural damage or warping

I've owned this one for decades

The interior of this case is elaborate

believe me

Fine Antique French Portrait Miniature, c.1700s, Gentleman in Powdered Wig evening purse There are a few smallA tiny gem, perhaps all that remains to mark a life of this very distinguished gentleman who looks a great deal like French King Louis XVI, don't you agree? Fashioned for his time, c. 1760 1780s, he wears the long powdered wig of a avacate (attorney or judge) or simply a courtier in the time of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The painting is tiny, elegant, and done on paper rather than the thin natural wafer of most. It just feels like a quick little