c. 1861 (recto); c. 1854-56 (verso)
There are faint very faint studies on the recto: a cloaked figure to the left of Christ's legs, and the outline of the legs and spear of a soldier below the Cross. The verso includes a faint image of a horse's head just above the Degas stamp.
31 x 23.9 cm (12 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Watercolor, pastel, and graphite on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and white chalk on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGreen quarter-leather binding and green-speckled boards; twenty-nine pages of off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and watercolor on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite and/or black chalk on off-white wove paper darkened to brown-gray
19th centuryFrenchPencil on gray paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and graphite on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on buff laid paper; verso: black chalk
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk with erasures on off-white paper, darkened
19th centuryFrench