Playing House

The mother sits on the edge of the daybed and holds a red-haired doll in a white frock out toward the child. Propped on one elbow on the white coverlet, he reaches for it with both hands. She wears a pink dress with a green bodice and a small-flowered apron, her hair drawn into a high knot with loose curls. The daybed panel is painted with roses inside a green border, and two modelled rosebuds with a white blossom rest at the front of the base.