Antique French Portrait Miniature in Leather Etui, Case, c.1835-45 Beautiful Woman w Cameo scent caddy but in greatly enlarged scans

but in greatly enlarged scans and photos you can see there is a very slight rim roughness to the cover glass on the backside

original lock

cannetille jewelry was made during only a short period

There are some fading notations on the silk backing

Long tail feathers

Antique French Portrait Miniature in Leather Etui, Case, c.1835-45 Beautiful Woman w Cameo scent caddy but in greatly enlarged scansJust as the 1830s transitioned with the Coronation in England of Queen Victoria, c. 1837, and the styles returned to more modest and high collared, buttoned up and less revealing, and double and triple parted hairstyles were all in vogue, this beautiful young woman put on her best gown and her cameo and sat for her portrait. Perhaps a wedding portrait, the cameo her honeymoon Grand Tour souvenir of Italy and the miniature painting, which is most