Antique French Portrait Miniature in Leather Etui, Case, c.1835-45 Beautiful Woman w Cameo scent caddy or a desktop box

or a desktop box

or display as works of art

I've added in an enlarged image of the one

There are some fading notations on the silk backing

The Industrialist era opened the world to Grand Tour tourism

Antique French Portrait Miniature in Leather Etui, Case, c.1835-45 Beautiful Woman w Cameo scent caddy or a desktop boxJust as the 1830s transitioned with the Coronation in England of Queen Victoria, c. 1837, and the styles returned to more modest and high collared, buttoned up and less revealing, and double and triple parted hairstyles were all in vogue, this beautiful young woman put on her best gown and her cameo and sat for her portrait. Perhaps a wedding portrait, the cameo her honeymoon Grand Tour souvenir of Italy and the miniature painting, which is most