Posted 7 years ago
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Amazing amout of work went into this treasure. I got it online 15-20 years ago...and was the only bidder so it sold very low. ---8X5, handmade, but I
don't know when. These are joyous musical figures and done with a special scissors for very fine paper cutting projects. I have kept it very carefully, and it has held up well. One of my very most precious things.
Intricate Silouhette.
I agree ... EXQUISITE !!!!!
vetraio50 --thanks very much!!
Thanks for recognizing the artestry and skill needed to create this piece
TassieDevil
vetraio50
it sure is!
Happy to see some people lookd at this and left "love"! Thanks!
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Before the age of the photograph, the silhouette, either cut from paper or painted, was the most affordable portrait that could be made. The art enjoyed a golden age in the second half of the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries, when many people collected them. Although silhouettes were well-loved, the man for whom they were named was not: Étienne de Silhouette was France's finance minister under Louis XV and was notorious for both his frugality and his hobby of making cut-paper shadow portraits. The phrase à la Silhouette came to mean "on the cheap," and portraits like the ones he produced were (satirically) bestowed with his name as well.
So much detail, and a beautiful subject too.
You have such amazing paper at your house Lois!
THANKS racer4 four. It does keep me very jappy!
Vintagefran--I appreciate your love!