18th century
53.2 × 40.5 cm (20 15/16 × 15 15/16 in.)
Sale, Drouot (Ader-Tajan), Paris, 27 June 1992, lot 315; W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund and Richard Norton Memorial Fund, inv. no. 1993.163
Pastel on lavender wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on parchment laid down to white laid paper.
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tan tracing paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and white gouache on buff wove paper, laid down to board(?). Surrounding paper frame obscures edges.
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGray ink and black and pink wash on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrench