SOLD Delicately Rendered Portrait of a Young Woman in Green with Fan, Antique Watercolor in Period Frame gesture Image size approx 19 1/8"

Image size approx 19 1/8" x 12"

Handmade boxes with surprise carved snakes inside seem to have become a thing right around 1900

pulled from the personal collection of an artist--and I purchased a few more

Losses to the arms as evident

As is the case with many a thing

SOLD Delicately Rendered Portrait of a Young Woman in Green with Fan, Antique Watercolor in Period Frame gesture Image size approx 19 1/8"I purchased this one from a dealer in North Carolina, and she does seem a bit of the Southern(ish) belle with fan in hand, though I am not certain of her origins. Later 19th century I believe, in what appears to be her original gold gessoed frame, suiting her perfectly. Naive but also very delicately rendered, with finely drawn features and wonderful painterly application of the green of her dress. And with her eyes cast slightly, upward, perhaps in