c. 1814
actual: 17.8 x 35.7 cm (7 x 14 1/16 in.)
Achille Leclère. Achille Lecère and heirs Mme Fassier. Claude Darton, Avignon.
Graphite and white chalk on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite 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 beige laid paper, laid down to off-white wove paper (platemark on secondary support)
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white laid paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash, and white gouache on brown paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, graphite and colored pencil on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk heightened with white chalk on gray paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
19th centuryFrenchCharcoal on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and graphite on cream antique laid paper.
18th-19th centuryFrench