19th century
31.7 x 25 cm (12 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.)
Raymond Balze, Paris, 1909. Balze Family, France, by descent, 1909, Sale, Vendome, Hotel des Ventes, 1998. Sale date: 15 February 1998, lot 111. Title of sale catalogue: "Les Freres Balze," Depuis ses origines, ce fonds d'atelier a été conservé dans la famille Balze W. M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York, Purchase at sale, 1998, Sale to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 2000. Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Beverly Farms, MA, Purchase from W.M. Brady and Co., 2000.
Brown wash and black chalk, with traces of red chalk, on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white paper, laid down to off-white wove paper (platemark on secondary support)
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache over black chalk on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGouache on wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, white gouache, brown wash, and graphite on tan wove paper with ruled lines, laid down
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and white chalk on tan wove paper, darkened.
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and adhered to white card and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGreen quarter-leather binding and green-speckled boards; twenty-nine pages of off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrench