Antique French Oil on Wood Folk Art Painting of Church and Strolling Figures heart-shaped cutout This one is signed Dorlisa

This one is signed Dorlisa (or possibly Dorlida) Lyons (appropriately) and I think it honors its predecessors quite nicely

sometime between 1830 and 1842

lid closes tight

which is symbolic--here checkerboard patterns that I believe symbolize rain combined with orange circles with dots at their center that I believe reference either suns or flowers

The rows of them are about 4" long

Antique French Oil on Wood Folk Art Painting of Church and Strolling Figures heart-shaped cutout This one is signed DorlisaThe back of this painting notes the subject as Eglise de Maisons Lafitte, which indeed is a church, better known as Eglise Saint Nicola, still standing in Maisons Lafitte, not far outside Paris. However, it seems that the church, completed in 1878, has had some additions and subtractions since, including losing the patterned roof and blue steeple that contribute to making this painting so striking. (There's an image of an old postcard in photos that