Antique 18th -Early 19th Century French Portrait Miniature Painting aprés Vigee LeBrum, in Bronze Frame 1878 Paris Expo as if she was someone

as if she was someone very loved

The smaller the scale

Note the fine detail - even though I've greatly enlarged the painting

One can only guess who these people were since we have no history to attend it

Antique 18th -Early 19th Century French Portrait Miniature Painting aprés Vigee LeBrum, in Bronze Frame 1878 Paris Expo as if she was someoneOne sees this exquisite little painting and instantly the art historian will say it is after work by French 18th century artist, Vigee LeBrun. Vigee was daughter of Charles LeBrun, also a court artist of great and lasting fame, Vigee became Marie Antoinette's favorite and Court portraitist. I searched the image and was unable to find an original of just this pose but I, too, think it would have been a later 1700s to perhaps mid 1800s miniature