Pencil Drawing of Marthe in Profile on French Furniture Shop Card Center Ohio Whoever made him was skilled

Whoever made him was skilled and took great care--he Is beautifully constructed of this terrific red striped linen

and especially about that white horse ethereally floating between earth and sky in front of that bushy tree

I think it is quite a wonderful little thing

I believe it would work nicely as a perfume bottle

or a tuna fish sandwich with chips

Pencil Drawing of Marthe in Profile on French Furniture Shop Card Center Ohio Whoever made him was skilledI think this drawing of pretty, intense young Marthe has so much life in it I can just feel her presence (and the tightness of her collar!) across the distance of a century plus. From the ears to the bow in her hair to the stitching across the front of her dress and the way the fabric falls below it, it's terrifically vivid and I think just terrific. Late 19th or very early 20th century and drawn on the reverse of a postcard sized Parisian