Snapshot of Charles-Albert Despiau's Little Peasant Girl Bust with Fingerprints (Presumed Captured on Vitrine Glass) 1930s magic trick who notes he's only seen

who notes he's only seen a couple

All done from one piece of wood

The exterior surface is carved with a grid of nine squares on each side

but it appears the head and arms of the young woman at the center of this postcard MAY have been printed

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

Snapshot of Charles-Albert Despiau's Little Peasant Girl Bust with Fingerprints (Presumed Captured on Vitrine Glass) 1930s magic trick who notes he's only seenI 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