Figure 1.--This pencil and water color painting shows a Frehnch school boy wearing a cap and light blue, front-buttoning smock. |
A least some boys wore lihjt-colored, front buttoining smocks. A amateur water colorist left an album of paintings dated 1885. He is not the most capable artist we have seen, but he has left a very detailed of a boy in a military-styled cp and lihjt-colored smock. The child almost surely is a school boy. We do not know how representative this smile was. The portrait is watercolor and pencil on psper. The artist was Matthew S. Jarvis (active 1879-1887).
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