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.
Pastel, graphite, and gold-toned paint on wove paper, attached to paper, attached to linen or canvas
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk with touches of red chalk, squared in black chalk, on dark cream wove paper, laid down
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 (a copy of "Proclamation de l'Empereur")
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on ivory laid paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack lithographic crayon and scratchwork on beige tracing paper, mounted on cardboard
19th-20th centuryFrenchCharcoal, graphite, and white chalk on blue wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and black crayon on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and brown wash(?) on gray-blue wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and gray wash on heavy white wove paper; verso: black chalk
19th centuryFrench