Woman in Kimono with Parasol, Antique Cyanotype, late 19th/early 20th c. radiant painting Really a super piece

Really a super piece

Just a sweet

but overall good condition and looks great

and stuffed with what I believe are beans

with subjects including landscapes

Woman in Kimono with Parasol, Antique Cyanotype, late 19th/early 20th c. radiant painting Really a super piecePerhaps this lovely woman was preparing to sit for James Whistler, who perhaps more than any other American painter helped to advance the "Japonisme" craze in the U. S. in the late 19th century, following its popularity first in Paris after the reopening of trade of Japan in 1858. This wonderful cyanotype does invite filling in a backstory, as our subject looks not entirely ready or eager to have have her photograph taken, and one might guess that the