Family portrait

Very charming watercolor signed milot and dated 1846. Before the invention of photography, painting was the means of preserving family memories and this small painting is an illustration of this. The emphasis here is on femininity: the mother-daughter couple and the tenderness of contact, the flower, the doll, the books... It is in very good condition. The colors are of course less sustained than originally but the whole is very well preserved. It is framed under glass (also very old) and wooden frame.