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A Prevost Art Doll
By Carol Cameron

Photos by Carmel Doll Shop
and Carol Cameron

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n 1902, the prestigious Huret company was taken over by Mlle Elisa Julie Prevost. Two years
later, she moved the business to 68 Rue de la Boetie in Paris, France, where she remained
until 1931, when she closed the business.
Up until that point, Huret dolls had been targeted at children. In the early 1850s, the founder
of the company, Adelaide Aimee Calixte Huret, introduced a revolutionary new type of doll
with proportions of a twelve-year-old child. Although she left the business in 1864, she returned
to doll making in the late 1870s and designed the Huret Bebe, representing a five-year-old child.
Elisa Prevost changed the audience once again, evolving the Huret poupee into an Art Doll
for adults. There were eight different head molds, usually referred to as "Type 1," "Type 2" etc.
All the molds were made with both painted and glass eyes. All had closed mouths. The heads
were of variable quality but the early (pre-WWI) heads can be exceptional. The articulated adult
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