Snapshot of Charles-Albert Despiau's Little Peasant Girl Bust with Fingerprints (Presumed Captured on Vitrine Glass) red orange but I like him just

but I like him just standing around

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

with one ding to the edge of one side

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

Snapshot of Charles-Albert Despiau's Little Peasant Girl Bust with Fingerprints (Presumed Captured on Vitrine Glass) red orange but I like him justI 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