Wonderfully Naive Early 19th C. Portrait of Young Woman on Silk, Framed set of people but this one I'm especially

but this one I'm especially fascinated by because of the strangeness of the perspective

such that he needs to lean against something in order to stand

5" long x 2" deep x 3

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Wonderfully Naive Early 19th C. Portrait of Young Woman on Silk, Framed set of people but this one I'm especiallySo many portraits, and faces, specifically, to fall in love with! The style of this young woman's blue dress makes me think this gouache and watercolor on silk dates to the 1820s or so, with the oval cut shape of the silk akin to the format of painted miniatures. But how much nicer for it to be a full length portrait, especially for including this exuberant bouquet spreading like a fan in her raised hand and with charmingly extended pinky wrapped