Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman Richard Rohac Austria I love everything about this

I love everything about this painting

I especially love the tin foil windows

That is gone

I think the lettering was probably airbrushed

Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman Richard Rohac Austria I love everything about thisI love the ambiguity of this image, which I believe is a CDV that was scallop cut along the bottom before being mounted to the card, c. 1865. What is interesting to me about it is how the quality of the image to begin with combined with its aging over time make it feel very close to to a cut paper silhouette, and also almost as if it were a photograph of a statue, though details like the eyelashes and locks of hair surely point the former. Ultimately