Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop handmade primitive brush 28 rounds cut of heavy

28 rounds cut of heavy paper/card

I would guess mid 19th c or so

in Valogne

with paper garlands and stars and lots of angels

Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop handmade primitive brush 28 rounds cut of heavyWow. I love an old photo of a child with their toys, but this is a different level portrait entirely. This very very blonde, intense and otherworldly looking child keeps making me think of (Herzog muse) Klaus Kinski, and that amazing quilted wall evokes some dimension of Kubrick's The Shining, too. (Truly, I feel an electric current running through this photo.) With what looks to me to a sword in one hand, some sort of a cup with chains dangling from