19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers sales advice 7 1/4" long x 5

7 1/4" long x 5 1/8" deep x 2 3/4" tall

touching thing

one eye raised as if to interrogate us

giving this bucolic landscape a bit of an edge and amplifying the sense of nature as a vastly more powerful force than our little rowing boater at left or the tiny flying ducks at bottom right

19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Giant Baby Boy, Flowers sales advice 7 1/4" long x 5This is one of a handful of drawings I'm listing by the same (surely quite young) maker, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I'd guess 1870s or so, and all quite wonderful, this otherworldly baby boy on blue blanket, seemingly a giant in relation to the tree beside him, perhaps my favorite of all. (And reminding me a bit of the phenomenal "electric pencil" drawings of James Edward