Horse Racers at Saint-Cloud, Antique French Watercolor by Pierre Albert Leroux antique boy scouts collectible or maybe it housed pages

or maybe it housed pages of it at the printing house

As a stand alone piece I think it's pretty terrific

They are made of a mix of construction paper

The box is in excellent overall condition

You’re more clever than I if you can figure it all out

Horse Racers at Saint-Cloud, Antique French Watercolor by Pierre Albert Leroux antique boy scouts collectible or maybe it housed pagesMy new favorite antique watercolor. I do seem to be having a bit of a horse moment, with several drawings and paintings of horses currently in the shop, but here it is the whole scene (set at the Saint Cloud race track just outside of Paris), and especially the faces of the riders, that put it over the top. The manner of the painting is also reminding me of Henry Darger, so I am projecting vivid interior lives onto these equestrians, and their horses