Double Portrait, Artist at His Easel, Very Fine and Slightly Eerie French 1841 Watercolor apple pin cushion 6" x 5 " x

6" x 5 " x 5/16" and in good condition

Things are never as simple as they seem--though certainly desire never ceases

just fabulous

but I think it is possible it is older than that

and this one with a fantastic pattern of 12 stacked squares on the hinged lid

Double Portrait, Artist at His Easel, Very Fine and Slightly Eerie French 1841 Watercolor apple pin cushion 6" x 5 " xI was completely taken with this one when I spotted it online, sold by a dealer in France then eagerly awaited its arrival for several weeks, with hopes it would be as good and I thought it was, and it is. Perhaps a study for what would be a large oil painting, though very finely rendered in watercolor by an artist clearly in command of the medium. I'm a sucker for a portrait of an artist at his, or her, easel, actual or proverbial, and absolutely