Antique Watercolor Portrait Gentleman in Tails, Cravat, Gilt Shadow Frame 13 1/4" x 11" bread All of the sterling tops

All of the sterling tops bear the French Minerve or Minerva hallmark

The arching pen rack is fully intact

Only a bit of her hair and shoulder remain embedded in the cameo oval

the boys play at getting their small sailboat to set off in the tide pools of a low-tide seaside somewhere in England

Antique Watercolor Portrait Gentleman in Tails, Cravat, Gilt Shadow Frame 13 1/4" x 11" bread All of the sterling topsDating c. 1880s, this brilliant watercolor portrait in its original frame must surely have been a fine French aristocrat dressed for hunt or horse racing event. Long sporting tail coat, jodhpurs (riding pants) and the top of a riding crop in his gloved hand. Artist signed, and I would have to guess, "A Lebraun Dervais". I'm not positive I've read it right. Framed elegantly, too, in a shadow box frame that has about 1" depth and a cover glass still in