19th Century French Portrait Miniature, Boy Child with Dog, Back-Painted Glass "Eglomise" Fine Frame
Quite unique, really - I've collected portrait miniatures and art, portraits for many decades, and this is the only one done in this very difficult art method. "Eglomise" is the French word for back-painted glass. This portrait is painted on the back side of a convex panel of glass. A very handsome young boy in an outdoor setting, landscape, along with his dog. What's incredible about this artistic method is, one paints exactly opposite the usual, laying down the furthermost front color first, then the next behind it, always working from the backside. An intellectual challenge for even the most visually astute of artists, and nothing at all like being able to work over and back into a painting as it develops before you. One must reverse perception. As a small child, I had a great-uncle, born in Switzerland, who was an artist and he did wonderful landscapes and also painted flowers in reverse or "eglomise" working front to back to create the petals. I spent fascinated hours watching hi