An Early 20thC Painted Papier-Mâché French Fairground Passé-Boules Ball Toss Game Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews We have never attempted to

We have never attempted to renovate her in anyway

This work is a variation on the Penitent Magdalene which is a 16th-century oil on canvas painting by Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio

Height: 10

which are of good quality but have areas of loss

The paper label to the reverse tells us the artist’s name again and that the picture was painted in Bruges

An Early 20thC Painted Papier-Mâché French Fairground Passé-Boules Ball Toss Game Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews We have never attempted toOrigin: FrenchPeriod: Early 20thC Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1910 35Height: 25Width: 14. 5Depth: 10The papier mch Pass Boules toss game, as a Pierrot clown, wearing a blue rimmed pointed hat, with a gaping open mouth into which one tosses balls, showing the original painted features, and with unusual glass eyes, the whole on a pink painted hanging board showing related newspaper cuttings to the reverse, to a ball tray with chalked sections at 2, 5