German School, Two portrait miniatures of Baron Petsold, Minister of Saxony, circa 1760 and la Baronne de Posch, circa 1758

She holding a fan in her right hand, dressed in a puce crinoline and blue and white bodice under a black lace stole, he wearing an intricate silk and velvet waistcoat and jacket under a blue velvet cloak, pointing at a scroll on his worktable, holding a book in his left hand, painted on ivory, both in their original 18th century frames, historic paper labels alluding to the identity of the sitters, 10.5 x 8 cm. (some losses to the paintings of the edges of both miniatures) (2)