19th century
Upper corners rounded. There are single graphite lines framing the drawing on the mount. Study for the etching The Holy Family Near a Bridge, Van Gelder 47. According to Van Gelder, the drawing was cut to its present shape by the artist's daughter, Rodolphine.
actual: 8.2 x 10 cm (3 1/4 x 3 15/16 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
Graphite, colored pencil and black ink on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchWatercolor, gouache and black ink, on colored (?) antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and red chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchCharcoal on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink with brown wash, on cream wove paper, framing lines in black and red ink
19th centuryFrenchBlack and gray wash over black chalk on off-white modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, with red chalk in the study at left, on cream modern laid paper. Badly foxed and discolored; old vertical centerfold.
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and colored pencil on off-white wove paper.
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on off-white paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash, white and gray gouache with traces of black chalk on tan wove paper discolored to brown
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrench