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 and white chalk on light tan wove paper, squared in black chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, colored washes, and graphite, partially incised, on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, black ink and colored pencil on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream wove paper, foxed, laid down. In some areas the acidic ink has eaten into the paper; pin holes at the four corners.
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and watercolor on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, black conté crayon and brown/black ink with scratchwork on tracing paper, laid down
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and black crayon on tan card
19th-20th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black chalk
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrench