Pair of genre scenes within a circular gold frame with a bow at the top, 18th century

This pair of refined tondos dates, in style and materials, to the second half of the 18th century. The two watercolor scenes are painted in a light, joyful Rococo style, with meticulously detailed facial expressions and carefully crafted clothing and backgrounds. The stylistic reference is undoubtedly the painting of Jean-Antoine Watteau, with his elegant aristocratic entertainments and evocative portraits of musicians (note the gentle figure of a guitarist in the second tondo). The Louis XVI-style frames are gilded with ormolu, a technique particularly popular in the century in question.