Horse Racers at Saint-Cloud, Antique French Watercolor by Pierre Albert Leroux antique boy scouts collectible especially as it features triangular

especially as it features triangular shaped panels that allow for building faceted structures

or maybe it housed pages of it at the printing house

The top of the box seems to have met the tip of many blades

I am uncertain as to whether it is bronze cast or iron cast with bronze finish (it is quite heavy for its size)

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

Horse Racers at Saint-Cloud, Antique French Watercolor by Pierre Albert Leroux antique boy scouts collectible especially as it features triangularMy 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