This is a gouache portrait of the doomed Shakespeare lovers Romeo and Juliet. The colors are a mix of new pigments (phthalo green and deep scarlet) plus washes of titanium buff and zinc white with touches of antique pigments like Vermilion. The mix of Vermilion in Zinc white gives true "Minim" or the name that gave us the term "miniature." Vermilion mixes into white and gives a "carnation" or flesh layer that is truly an exciting blush color. Juliet is adorned with gold gouache on her cinquecento velvet frock and her hair net, and she wears a crystal necklace with a Swarovski diamond. The depth of the colors, some five or six layers, is best appreciated in person. The scan doens't do it justice.