Chic Woman in Pink Hat Hand-drawn Ink with Watercolor Postcard antique tops Smiley painted and drew throughout

Smiley painted and drew throughout her life

It's nice and substantial

fuzzy-haired

it seems there were a whole series of these made for export in the earlyish 20th century featuring an array of different dogs as well as other animals

Chic Woman in Pink Hat Hand-drawn Ink with Watercolor Postcard antique tops Smiley painted and drew throughoutIf I didn't know better, I might think this fabulous woman in pink pillbox hat with yellow pompom was Jackie Kennedy but the postcard, which appears to have been mailed from Vienna to Davos Platz in Switzerland in 1907, predates Jackie's look by nearly 60 years. I can't quite translate the text, but might guess that the drawing is a portrait of the recipient and the object of Raoul S's affection, and I do think he must have been quite pleased with it,