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.
Black chalk and charcoal, extensively stumped, with touches of red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, squared, on tracing paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on tan wove 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 centuryFrenchBrush and pale and dark gray wash over black chalk on bluish-white laid paper; verso: graphite
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on pale blue laid paper
19th centuryFrench