Intense Blushing Boy in Shorts in High Chair, Antique Hand-tinted Tintype swan doorstop plus that kerchief around his

plus that kerchief around his neck and those big eyes that seem to be coyly checking out something (or someone

as if the parrot were crying

The polychrome colors remain super saturated and bold - red

and he definitely has a patina on him

Intense Blushing Boy in Shorts in High Chair, Antique Hand-tinted Tintype swan doorstop plus that kerchief around hisIn his gaze, and in his posture, this boy seems to me to possess a fantastic intensity which I find quite gripping, and the image holds a sort of otherworldliness too, enhanced by the fact that his chair appears almost as if levitating! And the glow of his hand painted pink cheeks furthers a sense of some sort of possessed ness! Plus those wool shorts, and hand painted gold buttons running down the front of his dark shirt. I found this one together