Pencil Drawing of Marthe in Profile on French Furniture Shop Card handmade pencil box is monogrammed with the initials

is monogrammed with the initials HHF

Someone long ago

and there is a hole inside the head for a few fingers

Such a great little lion

This one--of which I have found no exact match

Pencil Drawing of Marthe in Profile on French Furniture Shop Card handmade pencil box is monogrammed with the initialsI think this drawing of pretty, intense young Marthe has so much life in it I can just feel her presence (and the tightness of her collar!) across the distance of a century plus. From the ears to the bow in her hair to the stitching across the front of her dress and the way the fabric falls below it, it's terrifically vivid and I think just terrific. Late 19th or very early 20th century and drawn on the reverse of a postcard sized Parisian