Perfectly Stark, Antique Tintype of Sensitive Looking Young Man antique portrait drawing It looks like the gold

It looks like the gold paint was painted (maybe not too long ago) over an older grayish green

It is in excellent condition and measures 6" tall x 3 3/8" in diameter

come spring

with the cherries a reference to his cherry tree

Perfectly Stark, Antique Tintype of Sensitive Looking Young Man antique portrait drawing It looks like the goldI've got a special weakness for super stark and spare antique tintype portraits that thus feel very contemporary. This one is a case in point, and reminds me, including for the combination of intensity and vulnerability that seem to reside in this you mans gaze, of the work of Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra, which I very much love. Feels beyond time and also hyper present to me, very beautiful. C. 1870s. 2 x 3 1 4". General wear and aging, feeling