Young Woman with Mask, 19th C. Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame tasbletop especially among students

especially among students

and many many years on it that have turned it a dark

holding jewelry on the dresser or vanity

black ink on white laid paper

Carved of pine I believe

Young Woman with Mask, 19th C. Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame tasbletop especially among studentsThere seem to be a fair number of i18th and 19th c. images of young women holding masks, inspired I believe by the popularity of masquerade balls; whether this folk watercolor was based on a specific popular print I have not been able to discern, but it may well have been. Whatever the case, I take it on its own terms and think it's fabulous, with the big blue eyed, side cast gaze of this young woman seeming to sparkle with a coy mischievousness. I