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FRENCH SCHOOL, circa 1800
A young mother holding her two children and seated on a brown chair, her blonde hair falling in ringlets onto her forehead and tied in a plaited bun, wearing gold earrings and a blue dress with short sleeves and white muslin fichu, her daughter with blue bandeau in her fair hair, wearing a white muslin chemise and holding an open book in her right hand, her left arm embracing her mother, the younger child seated on his mother's thigh and holding a red apple in his right hand, his left hand grasping his mother's white fichu -- 7.7 cm diam., gilt-metal mount within a frame with ribbon-tie cresting
A young mother holding her two children and seated on a brown chair, her blonde hair falling in ringlets onto her forehead and tied in a plaited bun, wearing gold earrings and a blue dress with short sleeves and white muslin fichu, her daughter with blue bandeau in her fair hair, wearing a white muslin chemise and holding an open book in her right hand, her left arm embracing her mother, the younger child seated on his mother's thigh and holding a red apple in his right hand, his left hand grasping his mother's white fichu -- 7.7 cm diam., gilt-metal mount within a frame with ribbon-tie cresting