Girl playing with her toes
Signed with a stamp C Milles. Foundry mark L.A 20 cire perdue. Posthumous casting. Bronze, green patina, height 24.5 cm (including stonebase 3 cm).
Erik Näslund, "Carl Milles - a biography", 1991, compare illustration p. 283.
Henrik Cornell, "Carl Milles, his works", 1963, compare illustration p. 132.
Sketch for the Fountain of Faith, Falls Church, Washington DC, 1952.
In the author Henrik Cornell's description of the Fountain of Faith he called this composition "crouching children" (as one of two freestanding sculptures) where the girl is reaching for a butterfly settled on foot.