A double-portrait of two Children in an interior; a young girl with long brown hair facing right, standing three-quarters length before a blue curtain drapery and holding a silver rattle on a long blue silk ribbon, wearing a frill-bordered white muslin dress with blue belt, the younger child full-length facing left, seated in its blue-covered cradle and clasping the silk ribbon, wearing a frilled white lace cap and matching dress with blue shoes.
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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1790
A double-portrait of two Children in an interior; a young girl with long brown hair facing right, standing three-quarters length before a blue curtain drapery and holding a silver rattle on a long blue silk ribbon, wearing a frill-bordered white muslin dress with blue belt, the younger child full-length facing left, seated in its blue-covered cradle and clasping the silk ribbon, wearing a frilled white lace cap and matching dress with blue shoes.
2½in. (64mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame with glazed yellow silk reverse applied with elaborate engraved foliate gilt-metal initials 'LM'
A double-portrait of two Children in an interior; a young girl with long brown hair facing right, standing three-quarters length before a blue curtain drapery and holding a silver rattle on a long blue silk ribbon, wearing a frill-bordered white muslin dress with blue belt, the younger child full-length facing left, seated in its blue-covered cradle and clasping the silk ribbon, wearing a frilled white lace cap and matching dress with blue shoes.
2½in. (64mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame with glazed yellow silk reverse applied with elaborate engraved foliate gilt-metal initials 'LM'