18th century
36.3 x 20.4 cm (14 5/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Baron Roger Portalis (Lugt 2232), Paris. [Christie’s, New York, January 10, 1990, lot 147 (as Pierre)]. [Christie’s, New York, January 10, 1996, lot 238], sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 1999.
Graphite on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchPastel on paper, wrapped around and adhered to canvas
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on cream modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchMarble paper-covered boards and black leather spine; thirty pages of off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray-brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and black chalk, blue paper borders adhered to face, laid down on a decorated mount with remnant of a ledger from 1713 on the verso
18th centuryFrenchBrown and black ink and graphite, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGray ink, gray and brown wash on white laid paper, laid down to blue antique paper
18th centuryFrench