Original painting on hardwood measuring 13" x 18.5".
No need to frame. Sealed in satin varnish. Ready to be displayed with wire on back.
A few days ago I thought I loved you; but since I last saw you I feel I love you a thousand times more. All the time I have known you, I adore you more each day; that just shows how wrong was La Bruyére’s maxim that love comes all at once. Everything in nature has its own life and different stages of growth. I beg you, let me see some of your faults: be less beautiful, less graceful, less kind, less good…
1790s – General Napoleon Bonaparte To Joséphine Bonaparte
