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RODOLPHE BEL, circa 1825
A young girl waist-length slightly to sinister, wearing a large straw-hat adorned with a posy of flowers and two long blue silk ribbons, her low-cut white muslin dress with frilled border and short puff-sleeves tied at her waist with a blue silk sash; sky background; on vellum, oval -- 134 mm high, fine gilt-bronze mount chased with palmettes and honeysuckle motifs, on a rectangular veneered maple-wood panel
A young girl waist-length slightly to sinister, wearing a large straw-hat adorned with a posy of flowers and two long blue silk ribbons, her low-cut white muslin dress with frilled border and short puff-sleeves tied at her waist with a blue silk sash; sky background; on vellum, oval -- 134 mm high, fine gilt-bronze mount chased with palmettes and honeysuckle motifs, on a rectangular veneered maple-wood panel