Antique Pair, Napoleon III Era French Portrait Miniature Couple, Oil Painting on Porcelain Plaque face screen Lovely from all angles

Lovely from all angles

Or perhaps it just looks so much like one in particular

We will never know

There is about 1/2" canvas folded backside which can be part of the piece in order to sew it up into a pillow top so you don't lose any of the needlepoint size

Surely they had some significance to this Incroyable

Antique Pair, Napoleon III Era French Portrait Miniature Couple, Oil Painting on Porcelain Plaque face screen Lovely from all anglesHeight of fashion for early to mid Victorian era, which of course in France was the Napoleon III era (c. 1848 70). This stunning fine pair of oil paintings on convex porcelain plaques capture the style of their time as well as superb likeness and expression. Her dress, in the Napoleon III red and black, links directly to the fashion icon, Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III (France's last emperor). The pair, excellently preserved, remain in their