Curious Old Italian Opera Painting on Wood Panel with Carved Cherubs mini sculpture This giant whimsy feels more

This giant whimsy feels more like a piece of architecture than a carving

combining mirror

It has seen some use

which just pops (though the polka dotted ends of her obi are pretty great too

Curious Old Italian Opera Painting on Wood Panel with Carved Cherubs mini sculpture This giant whimsy feels moreA curious one, at least to me, which I understand from the seller would have been made for an Italian opera theatre, portraying a bit of the action and hung outside the theater as signage of sorts. It seems to me that the painting which has some of the feel (and drama!) of an ex voto retablo to me, and also a telenovela! was painted on a very old wooden panel, salvaged from something else, in the top corners of which (my favorite thing, best seen in