Scope and Contents Watercolor album by a young Jacques Hilpert. The album consists of twenty-four leaves plus one partial leaf of watercolors (rectos only) over pencil sketches, most of which are signed. The sketches represent street scenes, cafés, and restaurants during la Belle Epoque, with workers, waiters, cyclists, gendarmes, soldiers, well-dressed ladies and gentlemen. The album is sewn in paper wrappers and has a manuscript inscription by the artist "Peint par Jacques Hilpert 15 ans ½" on the front...