Charming and Naively Sophisticated Early-Mid 19th Century Fantasy Architecture Watercolor in Period Frame party prop with one white spot/streak on

with one white spot/streak on the photo at lower right

and then this landscape view

as the collection of portraits adds up to a portrait of early 20th century Paris

leather bindings

Charming and Naively Sophisticated Early-Mid 19th Century Fantasy Architecture Watercolor in Period Frame party prop with one white spot/streak onA little glare in the photos here and the colors are richer in hand. This is a very lovely earlyish 19th century naive watercolor, and exactly the kind of small painting one wants to live with I think a dreamy sort of landscape centered on a piece (or series of pieces of) what I take for fantasy architecture s. (And really, what a curious 18th 19th century folk art phenomenon "fantasy" architecture paintings were often executed as sandpaper drawings,