SOLD Woman and Bird, Very Finely Done Small 19th C. Oil on Tin Boudoir Painting decorative pillow beautifully rusted and bent here

beautifully rusted and bent here and there

and a number that are truly marbled in color

Apricot (presumably): approx 2 1/4" t x 2" x 2"

7 1/8" t x 1 3/4" w x 1 5/8" d and in great vintage condition

resulting in deepening of color and some reddening on the reverse side

SOLD Woman and Bird, Very Finely Done Small 19th C. Oil on Tin Boudoir Painting decorative pillow beautifully rusted and bent hereLove at first sight with this one, though I did then take out a magnifier to examine most every inch of it, as it was so precisely done (oil on tin) I almost didn't believe it was a painting. I've been thinking some about paintings of women and birds of late (there is a fantastic Morris Hirshfield painting recently shown at the American Folk Art Museum of a woman lying on a sofa facing a bird and appearing as if about to feed it from her mouth) and