The Little Dressmaker

Description A young girl is seated on a step in front of a doorway making a dress for a doll resting on her lap. At her left is a chair on which she has placed a miniature chest of drawers and some clothes, and on the floor is an open sewing box and a pair of scissors.

Provenance Sale, French and English Exhibition of Pictures, National Academy of Design, New York, October 29, 1859; William T. Walters, Baltimore, October 29, 1859, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature] Lower left: Ed Frére.; [Date] Lower left: 1858

Credit Acquired by William T. Walters, 1859