Small Vintage Portrait

Hi, Not my usual thing but I was very taken with this small (2.75 x 3.25 inches) portrait. I don't know what I'm looking at - photo, hand colored photo, painting? I would have thought painting, but it is on a thick card stock that I would expect a photo to be on. Any thoughts, how can I tell? The surface is very smooth to the touch, except the fur collar and brooch which feel ever so slightly raised. Also, from the dress, what time period would you say.

Thanks!

 

Id think painted photo ,but it does kinda look like a watercolor too ?

 

Beautiful, grand lady, whoever she was.

 

always a wonder when a painting serves better than a camera....

 

If it is very smooth to the touch, could it be a printed copy of a painting, on photo paper?

 

Figtree, you may be right, a print of a painting. The more I look at the less I think it is a photo. It is just the type of paper that made me think photo.

 

What a lovely lady! If I had to create an identity for her, I'd say she was Charles Dana Gibson's mother.

 

orrrr an aged Greer Garson in the role of Susie "Sparrow" Parkington in the movie Mrs. Parkington with Walter Pridgeon.

http://oscargasms.blogspot.com/2015/06/greer-garson-mrs-parkington.html
http://www.themakeupgallery.info/age/1940s/parkington.htm

--- Susan

 

To me, she looks like the matriarch in one of those sob stories in 1920/'30s Women's Magazines.

 

Susan, isn't that the one wherein she blows that curl off her forehead?

And settles everyone's hash at the end?

 

Yes!!

 

It looks like it could be the original print that came in the frame - to sell the frame.

 

Or, Gladys Cooper's mother! Strong resemblance.

 

Yes! I didn't realize GC was the daughter in that movie. Gee, this pic does look more like GC herself when she played Bette Davis' mother in the Now, Voyager.

https://theblondeatthefilm.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/now-voyager-rains.jpg

My, wasn't she in some great movies ranging from silent movies to such movies as The Song of Bernadette, Rebecca, The White Cliffs of Dover, My Fair Lady, ....... not to mention her vauderville theatre days and the many London/Gt. Britain theatre works.

--- Susan

 

It's beautifully done... I really like the portrait.

From what I'm seeing in the bottom section, it looks like a late 19th century or early 20th century chromolithograph. But without seeing it enlarged more, that's not definitive.

 

Can't stop thinking about Mary See of See's Candy

 

Hi,
I see my great grandmother in this photo. I do not have a photo of her but here is one of her daughter, me and my cousin.
greg