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
Watercolor, white gouache, and metalpoint on prepared white laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on cream modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite and gray-brown wash on off-white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and brown wash on cream wove paper.
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash and red chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on blue paper, faded
19th centuryFrench