Antique French Miniature Painting, GREUZE c.1769, "Votive Offering to Cupid", Romantic Era (1700s) Portrait, 16k Frame fire screen I added here and there

I added here and there

leaving abrasions

All manner of mudane items from our point of view now merited elevation in aesthetic as well as importance in the lives of the French (and European) aristocracy

Judging from the small holes in the sides of the bases

Antique French Miniature Painting, GREUZE c.1769, "Votive Offering to Cupid", Romantic Era (1700s) Portrait, 16k Frame fire screen I added here and thereSplendid miniature directly "aprs" (after) the original painting by Jean Baptiste GREUZE, ( ), exhibited at the 1769 Salon, and in collection now of the Wallace Collection Museum, London. A truly exquisite miniature painting, French and c. 1700s, in the "Romantic Era" manner and theme popularized by artists such as Greuze, Fragonard and Boucher in the time of the Louis Kings. The work is a splendid example of those themes, but in this miniature form,