#309

Child's Artist Menage in Elaborate Original Presentation Box from Au Bon Marche
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18" (46 cm.) x 13" box. An elaborate wooden box with faux-leather paper cover with lithograph design,hinges open at the top and sides to reveal an arrangement of paints,brushes,artist supplies,crayons,tools,stencils,palette,instructional books,and more,in unplayed with condition,still tied into original place. Centering the arrangement is a 9" wooden easel (wonderfully-sized for doll display) with an image of little boy "artists" walking to scenic areas,their canvases and supplies in tote. The image has the Au Bon Marche label indicating that the famous Parisian department store had commissioned the menage from Bourgeois Aine,Paris publisher as an exclusive Etrennes presentation. Fine unplayed with condition. Circa 1900,France.