Excerpt from Catalogue of Valuable Paintings and Sculpture Belonging to the Estates of the Late Joseph F. Knapp, Brooklyn, N. Y. And Warren Sherburne, Lexington, Mass. And Several Private Collectors: To Be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale on the Evening Herein Stated, at Mendelssohn Hall, Fortieth Street, East of Broadway

The head and shoulders of a young peasant girl, the face in three-quarter view to the right. Over a chemise of white linen she wears a bodice of lilac, and a blue scarf is thrown over her shoulders, leaving her throat and neck bare. Her fair hair is gathered at the back of her head, and a number of stray ring lets cluster round her ears and over her brow.

Signed at the middle left, eugene van bla-as. Height, inches; width, 7 inches. Estate of the late joseph F. Knapp.

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