{"product_id":"antique-19th-century-portrait-of-a-young-girl-oil-on-canvas-gilt-frame-c-1870","title":"Antique 19th Century Portrait of a Young Girl, Oil on Canvas, Gilt Frame, c.1870","description":"\u003cp\u003eA small 19th century oil portrait of a\u003cimg\u003e young girl, bust length, carefully finished in the face and left unresolved below. She looks softly down and to her right, dark hair centre parted and drawn back into a low chignon, an off the shoulder white dress dragged in with a loaded brush so the canvas weave reads through it. The face is modelled in soft gradations against a misty grey green ground, the handling of someone trained. The canvas is unlined on its original keyed stretcher and carries a circular colourman's stamp on the verso, partly legible but not yet read; no signature has been found. Sold as found, with a small slit in the canvas, scattered losses to the priming and rubbing along one edge. Period gilt composition frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall slit in the canvas on the left with a cluster of paint losses exposing the orange ground nearby, abrasion and loss along one tacking edge, surface grime and discolored varnish; the canvas is unlined on its original keyed stretcher, and the frame has chips to the gesso.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67613283909785,"sku":"VHA-0161","price":425.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/girl_portrait_cream.jpg?v=1791557368","url":"https:\/\/valleyhouseantiques.com\/products\/antique-19th-century-portrait-of-a-young-girl-oil-on-canvas-gilt-frame-c-1870","provider":"Valley House Antiques","version":"1.0","type":"link"}