1805-1806
23.7 x 17.9 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Jacques-Louis David, David Estate sale, Paris, A. N. Pérignon, 1826. sale, April 17, 1826, lot 75 or 79 Duchesse de Bassano, to her daughter Mlle de Bassano. Mademoiselle de Bassano. Martin Birnbaum, purchased from Mlle de Bassano, 1937, for Grenville L. Winthrop. Grenville Lindall Winthrop, purchased 1937, bequest to Fogg, 1943.
Graphite
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite over brown printing ink on white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, pastel, black chalk, gouache, and lead-white, with some varnish, on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, black ink, and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove card, the surface prepared with a hard, polished white ground; highlights scratched through the graphite with a sharp tool; background shading seems to have been stumped or stippled through a circular honeycomb mesh about 1 mm. in diameter
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on buff laid paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, traces of graphite on white laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on beige laid paper, darkened
19th centuryFrench