Snapshot of Charles-Albert Despiau's Little Peasant Girl Bust with Fingerprints (Presumed Captured on Vitrine Glass) red orange including for a big bowl

including for a big bowl of ice cream with cake on the side

and I really love the curve of the line where the seal's body meets the rock upon which it lays

He doesn't stand quite sturdy on his own so just needs something to lean slightly against

Flag itself measures 12 1/8" t x 18" w

Snapshot of Charles-Albert Despiau's Little Peasant Girl Bust with Fingerprints (Presumed Captured on Vitrine Glass) red orange including for a big bowlI do believe this old snapshot is my favorite find of the week another in which multiple dimensions of time and portraiture converge. The head pictured is a sculpture by Charles Albert Despiau (French, 1874 1946), an assistant to Rodin in addition to a well recognized sculptor himself. There are several versions of this "Little Peasant Girl" including a plaster model now in the collection of the Met, and a bronze (this one I believe) at least once