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15" (38 cm.) Each is one-piece figure of young boy posed standing on self-base, with sculpted tousled short boyish hair, and facial features modeled as though either crying or laughing, each with sculpted costume featured to enhance the facial expressions. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: French, circa 1880, representing "Jean Qui Rit" (John who laughs) and "Jean Qui Pleure" (John who cries), the storybook figures from the 1865 children's book of Comtesse de Segur. The models became so famous from this book that they were used in various presentations over the coming decades, in one instance as the faces of the double-faced bebe by Leon Casimir Bru. Value Points: with original store label from Eugene Trape of Toulouse who specialized in "objets de fantasie", according to the label.