A Very Good Quality c.1860 French Bois Durci Mourning Picture Frame sub-Antiques Leon Battista Alberti recommended that

Leon Battista Alberti recommended that when painters intend to depict a nude

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A Very Good Quality c.1860 French Bois Durci Mourning Picture Frame sub-Antiques Leon Battista Alberti recommended thatOrigin: French Period: Mid Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1855 65 Height: 8. 5 inches Width: 6. 5 inches (all at maximum) The finely moulded Bois Durci mourning picture frame with neo classical motifs including urns flanked by two winged putti in high relief, the aperture glazed and containing a reproduction Victorian post mortem photographic portrait, the whole surviving from mid nineteenth century France. The frame is in very good