Intense Blushing Boy in Shorts in High Chair, Antique Hand-tinted Tintype swan doorstop and houses a carved ladder

and houses a carved ladder

plus that kerchief around his neck and those big eyes that seem to be coyly checking out something (or someone

I am finding it hard to resist antique floral watercolors these days--perhaps in part for knowing that the loveliness of spring blooms exploding everywhere at the moment will soon be gone

and he definitely has a patina on him

With a frame size of 8" x 5 3/4"

Intense Blushing Boy in Shorts in High Chair, Antique Hand-tinted Tintype swan doorstop and houses a carved ladderIn his gaze, and in his posture, this boy seems to me to possess a fantastic intensity which I find quite gripping, and the image holds a sort of otherworldliness too, enhanced by the fact that his chair appears almost as if levitating! And the glow of his hand painted pink cheeks furthers a sense of some sort of possessed ness! Plus those wool shorts, and hand painted gold buttons running down the front of his dark shirt. I found this one together