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Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of Highly Important Old and Modern Paintings of Sterling Artistic Distinction: To Be Sold by Direction of John M. Freeman, Esq., Executor of the Estate of the Late Mr. David T. Watson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania A seated figure, in full face View, of a little girl with dark hair and eyes. She wears a waist of white, bodice of gray with shoulder straps and a skirt of gray-blue. Her feet are bare. On her lap she holds an open, paper-covered book and she looks up from it with pensive expression. The head, hands and feet show the skilful, exact drawing of the French master. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.