{"product_id":"antique-french-portrait-of-a-lady-with-a-parrot-in-the-louis-xv-manner","title":"Antique French Portrait of a Lady with a Parrot, in the Louis XV Manner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAntique French Portrait of a Lady with a Parrot, in the Louis XV Manner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe sits in a gilt fauteuil upholstered in crimson. Her hair is powdered and dressed close, with a small jeweled pin, and a teal silk ribbon is knotted at her throat. Her black velvet bodice is edged in lace and trimmed with silver rocaille passementerie. On the chair back behind her shoulder perches a green parrot, a fashionable companion in the 18th-century salon and a quiet sign of a household with taste and means.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe face is painted directly and without flattery. The rosy cheeks are frankly applied, the blue eyes clear, the expression composed and a little knowing. She reads as a particular woman rather than an idealized one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil on canvas, unframed, on a keyed stretcher with a central crossbar. Fine craquelure runs across the whole surface, the patina of long life on a wall. There are small, settled losses along the lower edge and at lower right, and a soft bloom in the lower corner. She is ready to hang as she is, or to frame in giltwood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrance, late 18th or 19th century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e22 x 18 in (56 x 46 cm)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Swan Hill Home","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51069437378779,"sku":null,"price":1495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/0466\/6843\/files\/IMG_0376.jpg?v=1794164198","url":"https:\/\/swanhillhome.com\/products\/antique-french-portrait-of-a-lady-with-a-parrot-in-the-louis-xv-manner","provider":"Swan Hill Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}