Antique French Portrait Miniature, Pencil Sketch, Drawing, Matron, Alph. GIROUX Frame Clodion bronze mahogany and tulipwood

mahogany and tulipwood

and sealed

One horn has a chip (view images) Remarkable to find any of these with so little loss

when a letter folded in on itself and was sealed against prying eyes by sealing wax

which was a fashion sported by those whose family or leaders met the guillotine in The Terror

Antique French Portrait Miniature, Pencil Sketch, Drawing, Matron, Alph. GIROUX Frame Clodion bronze mahogany and tulipwoodAlphonse GIROUX is a top name in 1800s' Paris, for fine frames, boxes, all manner of goods. Located at 7, rue du Coq, St. Honor, which even now is the row of shops of designers, top end goods in Paris. GIROUX was the same, and anything with that name was known at finest quality, extra merit. So it is with this matron's pencil portrait, likely done on commission through GIROUX. She counts as a portrait miniature, and I cannot read the French on back in