Portrait Of A Woman Holding A Golden Lorgnette Animals A fine 19th-century oil on

A fine 19th-century oil on canvas depicting a sumptuous interior at Gripsholm Castle in Sweden

An exquisite mid-19th-century portrait of a lady in a black dress by Austrian painter

The painting is signed/dated in the lower right

just a few years after Lydia’s wedding

15⅓” x 18” / 39cm x 46cm

Portrait Of A Woman Holding A Golden Lorgnette Animals A fine 19th-century oil onA fine mid 19th century portrait of a demure young lady carrying a golden lorgnette. Shes wearing the fashion of the early 1860s, which consists of a bell shaped green dress with sloping shoulders and flared wide sleeves, along with a floral bonnet decorated with roses. Her delicate golden lorgnette (which is a pair of spectacles with a handle) is folded and held between her thumb and index finger. On the reverse, various inscriptions seem to refer to