Another pretty posy

I have another pretty little flower stitched into RST1779.

And I've decided that maybe this was done by a schoolgirl after all.

I was beginning to suspect when I found errors in color placement in a few motifs, things that just didn't make sense and didn't fit the pattern. Then I stitched this flower, which is jammed right up against another motif. I don't think a professional using this for a display of her work would space things so closely.

Then I ran across a mention of "French schools" that existed in The Netherlands in the 1700's. Among other things, they taught embroidery "in the French style" to their pupils.

So RST may have been a student, a very skilled student. And now I have another rabbit hole to go down--French schools in The Netherlands--hmmmmm . . . .