Girl with Golden Necklace and Half Hidden Mother, Antique Hand-painted Tintype green and natural and his athletes

and his athletes

No nails here

The seller I purchased this from was all about the very rare

but it doesn’t

made I believe for a child (photo included of another example)

Girl with Golden Necklace and Half Hidden Mother, Antique Hand-painted Tintype green and natural and his athletesA girl after my own heart looking full of attitude and with a mind very much of her own. Her hand painted golden necklace makes her feel even more like a princess, with pale blue ribbons and sash to boot. Alone, I would love her, but it is the inclusion of half her mother in the frame that makes this just right to my eye formally compositionally, but also in terms of the dynamic her presence introduces, as if this child were midway through the process