Snapshot of Charles-Albert Despiau's Little Peasant Girl Bust with Fingerprints (Presumed Captured on Vitrine Glass) 1930s magic trick and then these wonderful hand-painted

and then these wonderful hand-painted marching red birds in great dark red

with push-pin shaped fronts and split fastener type backs

The scale of it is right to have been used as a handheld mirror

5 1/4" x 4 1/6" and in good condition

Snapshot of Charles-Albert Despiau's Little Peasant Girl Bust with Fingerprints (Presumed Captured on Vitrine Glass) 1930s magic trick and then these wonderful hand-paintedI 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