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 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 centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black crayon
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and charcoal on off-white wove paper, mounted to light tan laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGray wash, black and brown ink, over traces of black chalk on off-white paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and black crayon on off-white modern laid paper, abraded over entire surface
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream modern laid paper (foxing and discolored)
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink over graphite on heavy tan wove paper
19th centuryFrench, BurgundianCharcoal and black crayon with stumping, scratchwork and lifting on buff wove paper
19th centuryFrench