Young Woman with Mask, 19th C. Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame soup bowls or compliments cards

or compliments cards

which would seem right to me

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Young Woman with Mask, 19th C. Folk Art Watercolor in Period Frame soup bowls or compliments cardsThere seem to be a fair number of i18th and 19th c. images of young women holding masks, inspired I believe by the popularity of masquerade balls; whether this folk watercolor was based on a specific popular print I have not been able to discern, but it may well have been. Whatever the case, I take it on its own terms and think it's fabulous, with the big blue eyed, side cast gaze of this young woman seeming to sparkle with a coy mischievousness. I