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Excerpt from The Valuable Paintings Collected by the Late Dr. Leslie D. Ward of Newark, New Jersey A girl in Watteau costume, seated on a low wall, faces us. Her skirt is Of pearl and crimson striped satin, with greenish-white panniers, and her yellow bodice is laced over a white chemisette. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.