
Child with Christmas Card
Alden Finney Brooks
Watercolor, graphite, and gold paint on wove cardboard
Watercolor, light scraping to retain whites, graphite underdrawings; gold paint [border]; Stipple rich in face; used a combination of thin washes, layered to enchance and modify color and thick opaque color [red] which has a slight gloss [perhaps coated or combined with gun arabie]; entire sheet is covered · 1886
The Metropolitan Museum of Art