Charming and Naively Sophisticated Early-Mid 19th Century Fantasy Architecture Watercolor in Period Frame party prop and then this landscape view

and then this landscape view

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

This makes me think of a deadeye

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Charming and Naively Sophisticated Early-Mid 19th Century Fantasy Architecture Watercolor in Period Frame party prop and then this landscape viewA 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,