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Description
28" (71 cm.) Bisque socket head with angular features accentuated by well-defined chin and nose, elongated throat, blue glass paperweight inset eyes, thick dark eyeliner, painted curled lashes, brush-stroked and feathered brows, shaded nostrils, closed mouth with wide outlined lips, separately modeled pierced ears, brunette human hair over cork pate, French composition lady body with very shapely torso and shapely elongated limbs, jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees. Condition: generally excellent, tiny flakes on bottom of neck socket. Marks: Depose Tete Jumeau 211 11 (head) E. D.B. Paris La Patricienne (body). Comments: Emile Jumeau, late 1890s with appropriately-fitted 1905 lady body by Daspres, from the "Series Fantastique" by Jumeau, described in The Jumeau Book by Theimer/Theriault as "depicting an adult woman", the only model of that series to do so and being an abrupt departure from the other "Series Fantastique" which were of children. So rare is the model that no quantity at all was listed as remaining in the 1899 Jumeau inventory. Value Points: extremely rare portrait lady with regal, yet gentle presence, very fine quality of bisque and painting designed to accentuate the sculpted adult face with smaller eyecuts and defined cheek and jaw lines, and wearing superb antique costume that may be original.