19th century
actual: 4.9 x 9.7 cm (1 15/16 x 3 13/16 in.)
Rodolphe Bresdin. estate stamp (not in Lugt) Paul Bresdin. artist's son D. G. Santee Landweer, Amsterdam, 1930. D. Loenen, Amsterdam. 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
Black chalk with traces of charcoal with scraping on cream antique laid paper; graphite outline on palette and lower edge of coat lapels (later addition?)
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and brown wash on white wove paper.
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and adhered to white card and mounted to rag paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in graphite and black chalk, over graphite on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on gray paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink with brown wash, on cream wove paper, framing lines in black and red ink
19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid 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 centuryFrenchBlack ink and graphite on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrench