Fine Antique French Portrait Miniature, c.1700s, Gentleman in Powdered Wig evening purse Don't you wonder who she

Don't you wonder who she was and wish to know her story

A pristine veneer over a thick wooden construction

1700s tortoise shell snuff box

this brown-eyed young man who wears an elaborate white cravat with elaborate ruffle

The scissors remain sharp

Fine Antique French Portrait Miniature, c.1700s, Gentleman in Powdered Wig evening purse Don't you wonder who sheA tiny gem, perhaps all that remains to mark a life of this very distinguished gentleman who looks a great deal like French King Louis XVI, don't you agree? Fashioned for his time, c. 1760 1780s, he wears the long powdered wig of a avacate (attorney or judge) or simply a courtier in the time of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The painting is tiny, elegant, and done on paper rather than the thin natural wafer of most. It just feels like a quick little