Painted with the tender luminosity of early twentieth-century Viennese Jugendstil sentimentalism, this devotional art postcard by Olga von Riesen — dated 1917 in the image itself — shows a cherubic, curly-haired toddler in a white lace chemise, hands clasped in prayer around a golden medallion pendant, bathed in warm candlelight against crimson pillows, her head bowed in earnest concentration; the caption on the reverse reads "Ich bin klein, Mein Herz ist rein" ("I am small, my heart is pure"), the opening line of a beloved German children's bedtime prayer that dates to the Reformation. Published by E.A. Schwerdtfeger & Co. Akt.-Ges. of Berlin — one of the premier art-postcard publishers of the Wilhelmine and Weimar eras — and mailed from Vienna (Wien) on 22 November 1919, just one year after the fall of the Habsburg Empire, the card was sent by a writer signing only with "Sam" to Fräulein Hansi at Wien XVI, Lienfeldergasse. The stamp is a Deutschösterreich (German-Austria) 10-Heller carmine eagle, the transitional issue of the newly proclaimed Republic of German-Austria, postmarked at Wien 22.XI.19 — a historically resonant philatelic item from the turbulent post-WWI reorganization of central Europe.