1819
actual: 16.7 x 18.5 cm (6 9/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Achille Leclère. Achille Lecère and heirs Mme Fassier. Claude Darton, Avignon. Unidentified Dealer, Paris. Lucien Goldschmidt, New York. Mrs. Jacob M. Kaplan, New York.
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 centuryFrenchGraphite on dark cream laid paper, laid down to off-white wove paper (platemark on secondary support)
19th centuryFrenchConté crayon on beige wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream paper, laid down
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and gray wash on heavy white wove paper; verso: black chalk
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchPale and dark gray wash over black chalk on white laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor over graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchAlbum of cream wove paper containing twelve drawings in brown and black ink with brown wash on cream wove paper (adhered to album leaves) for illustrations to the Fables of Jean-Pierre-Claris Florian. There are framing lines around each drawing in black and red ink. The album was bound by Chambolle-Duru in red leather with gilt decorations on the exterior, blue leather with gilt decorations on the interior, and marbled endpapers.
19th centuryFrench