19th century
actual: 3.1 x 6.8 cm (1 1/4 x 2 11/16 in.)
Rodolphe Bresdin. estate stamp (not in Lugt) Paul Bresdin. artist's son D. G. Santee Landweer, Amsterdam, 1930. Provenance uncertain J. Fred Bianchi, Amsterdam. Sale: Amsterdam, 23-27 November 1964 Adolph Schwarz, Amsterdam-Amstelveen. Robert M. Light and Co., Santa Barbara, CA. Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, purchased from R.M. Light & Co., 1991, sold to HUAM, 1993. Long term loan to HUAM from June 1991 to 1993
Brown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on yellowed tracing paper heightened with white gouache
19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchPastel over monotype in black ink on white modern laid paper, discolored to tan
19th centuryFrenchBlack and colored chalk, graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchPale and dark gray wash over black chalk on white laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache over graphite on brown wove paper; parts of the background have been varnished
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, black ink, brown wash and white gouache on off-white (?) antique laid (?) paper, framing lines in black ink and black chalk, laid down
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor over graphite and gray ink on cream wove paper, darkened, crumbling along edges, laid down to the cover of a Louvre publication of the "Collection Sauvageot" by Edouard Leìvre.
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrench