I love this portrait miniature. First of all, it is authentically "folk painting," which I usually find charming. Second of all, as my mother would say of this young woman from long ago, "Sie ist nisht kein scheinheit," "She's no beauty." (Love those faintly bug eyes, the long nose, the disappearing chin . . .) But third of all, she's painting in her journal or notebook, her hair is in those snazzy curls, she is wearing coral jewelry (that's my kind of woman, wearing jewelry) and altogether, she exhibits a kind of low-key self-possession that makes me smile.
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