Antique French Portrait Miniature dated c1792, A Beared Priest in Blue Robe scent This is a late 1700s

This is a late 1700s item

The piece is a fine high quality treasure from an era when the aesthetic included such heirloom mourning items

I see some little tarnish on the underside of the base

I've always displayed it lying in a display table vitrine

Antique French Portrait Miniature dated c1792, A Beared Priest in Blue Robe scent This is a late 1700s"Donnez par An Fayett A le juin 1792" ("Given by An Fayett A on June 1792") Fayetteville on June, 1792). I feel certain there's another reading of that handwriting on back of this portrait. I think he is a monk or friar, which doesn't really adapt to an, which is a donkey. I must have it wrong. : ). The 228 year old painting, however, is both interesting and very well accomplished, and likely that of a monk or religious man, priest or friar. Only very