French School (Late 18th century), Portrait Miniature of a Courting Couple

Circa 1790s, watercolor on ivory, unsigned, depicting a bust length couple in a garden, the blued eye gent with hair in queue and brown overcoat posed with arms around a lady with full hairstyle of the period, white dress and blue waist sash, presented behind glass within an ormolu bezel.

3 3/8 in. diameter

From a Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

Good estate condition; a few sawtooth flanges on the posterior with loss, and later backing.
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