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Description
30" (76 cm.) Bisque socket head with very full cheeks and chin, large blue glass paperweight inset eyes with heavy upper eyelids, dark eyeliner, painted lashes, mauve-blushed eye shadow, brush-stroked and feathered brows with decorative glaze, shaded nostrils, closed mouth with outlined and accented lips, dimpled chin, separately modeled pierced ears, blonde human hair over cork pate, French composition and wooden fully jointed plump body with straight wrists. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 14 (head) Jumeau Medaille d'Or Paris (body). Comments: Emile Jumeau, the wistful-faced Bebe Triste, circa 1884. Value Points: gorgeous face, complexion and delicate painting of features on the rare size 14, original body and body finish, superb original silk couturier dress of maroon and peach silk, undergarments, maroon socks, leather shoes with brown silk rosettes. The doll was featured on the front cover of Doll News, Spring 1977.