SOLD Fantastic Early 19th C. Pinprick Watercolor Portrait of Beggar and Child Pennsylvania artist The leather is hardened and

The leather is hardened and nearly black

I sure would love one

Still super striking

variegated in color (pinkish and brown tones) and with a sheen to it

it appears that one of the motives behind many of Kaendler’s commissions for pugs was an emblematic one for the Order of the Pug

SOLD Fantastic Early 19th C. Pinprick Watercolor Portrait of Beggar and Child Pennsylvania artist The leather is hardened andI only buy things I like and would be happy to keep, but this is one of those I'd be especially fine holding on to ; I really really really love pinprick decorated watercolors, and this I believe is quite a phenomenal example. What an incredible density of tiny tiny pricked holes, making the hat and robe of this man feel quite like a cloud, and with what appear like angel wings (though perhaps a large pack) emerging from his back. The effect to my eye