Keeping Watch, Late Victorian Painting of Young Beauty on Door Japanese toad as handwritten on the reverse

as handwritten on the reverse

really) to this pink house against white snowy ground and blue sky

Oil on masonite

via which the interior compartment is revealed

And the perfect wedding or housewarming present

Keeping Watch, Late Victorian Painting of Young Beauty on Door Japanese toad as handwritten on the reverseQuite a beauty, and beautifully painted, but what really makes this for me is her having been painted on the central panel of a much used large cabinet (I believe) door. As such, her looking over her shoulder pose seems very much one of waiting and keeping watch and to have opened this door would have been to directly meet her gaze. (To me she looks a bit weary of it all, too, as if thinking "you again?") She seems to me much more of the sort to have