c. 1715
20 x 20 cm (7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Sale, Paris, Drouot, 13 December 1963, lot 33 (as Caspar Netscher); Geneviève Aymonier-Ferault, Paris (in 1964); sale, Versailles, Palais des Congrès, 28-29 May 1969, lot 158; Galerie Cailleux, Paris (their mark, not in Lugt); sale, London, Christie's, 4 July 1995 (as Jean-Baptiste Oudry), sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, inv. no. D-F-213, gift; to Harvard University Art Museum, inv. no. 1999.18
Red and white chalk over traces of black chalk, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and graphite with guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
18th centuryFrenchTracings, mostly in graphite, occasionally supplemented with gray wash, on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchGraphite, brown ink, and brown wash with touches of white gouache on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk and red chalk wash over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk and graphite, incised; verso: reddened for transfer
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, red chalk, gray wash, and white gouache over black chalk, on blue antique laid paper; verso: black ink and gray wash
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk with traces of graphite, and guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on oiled beige antique laid paper, mounted on beige modern laid paper (possibly same paper as album sheets)
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench