19th century
There is a more finished drawing of the same subject at the Art Institute of Chicago, Baigneuses dans la Montagne.
actual: 13.2 x 14.3 cm (5 3/16 x 5 5/8 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, lot 848 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 ink on tan tracing paper, incised, laid down to off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on darkened tracing paper, mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on white antique laid paper, border ruled in black ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack conté crayon(?), graphite, brown ink, and white gouache on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: watercolor and black chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchDistemper on wallpaper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, watercolor, and white gouache on light tan wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache over graphite, with areas of varnish, on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrench