Antique French Grand Tour Portrait Miniature after Portrait of Juliette Récamier by François Gérard (1805)

As I've explained, there are basically 2 types of portrait miniatures: 1. a living person who sat for their portrait in real life, and 2. those done "après" famous works of art in the museums, fueled by the souvenir hungry Grand Tour travelers. This is a Grand Tour portrait miniature, after the work Portrait of Juliette Récamier by François Gérard (1805, detail), which is on display in Musée Carnivalet, Paris. The miniature painting dates sometime after that, likely (from the frame) mid-1800. It is a larger sized portrait miniature and still is backed by vellum. Very good condition for age and type. The old pressed-embossed oval frame joins at the top and that final is a screw which holds the posts of each side of the frame tightly together, with cover glass, painting and vellum backing within. The wafer has 2 long tight hairlines, marked on our photos for your review. Stable beneath the original cover glass, it is from the natural shrinkage of the panel, nothing more. Visible at angl