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 crayon on tan paper
19th-20th 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 and brown wash on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on yellow tracing paper
19th centuryFrenchLithographic ink on prepared paper ("stone paper") mounted to paper board
19th centuryFrenchPrepared black chalk on thin off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGreen quarter-leather binding and green-speckled boards; twenty-nine pages of off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, pen and brown ink, blue and brown wash on off-white modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchCharcoal on tracing paper
19th centuryFrench