Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant carved ornament arguing for the responsiveness of

arguing for the responsiveness of modern architecture

and at the center

dwarfed by bed and bench

perfectly balanced with abstract flourish on the other side

Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant carved ornament arguing for the responsiveness ofI'm not altogether certain how to untangle this one, but it appears to me to be a tintype photo of an earlier watercolor, I presume a portrait miniature but perhaps it is a tintype of a daguerreotype of a painting (??) And I love the mystery and ambiguity of it in many respects; while sharing qualities of post mortem daguerreotypes, where infants were carefully laid out in a similar manner here on what looks like a chaise, with a curtain draped behind