Double Portrait: Ultra Moody 19th Century Cabinet Photo of a Hanging Miniature Portrait of a Woman badger I'm a sucker for Peonies

I'm a sucker for Peonies

which is in very good shape

1940s-50s salesman sample hinge very very Duchampian--a "readymade" for sure

before-- but I'm very happy to have made the discovery

but good and stable condition overall

Double Portrait: Ultra Moody 19th Century Cabinet Photo of a Hanging Miniature Portrait of a Woman badger I'm a sucker for PeoniesYou know I love a photograph of a painting, especially a portrait a likeness rendered in one form media translated into another, carrying the subject forward, across time. And to my eye this one is pure perfection. Ultra moody, perfect framing of the frame, with a perfect contrast between the clarity of detail on the frame and the painterliness of the portrait. And the ground, which looks likely like velvet, also has a bit of the feeling of skin. I'd