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 tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, white chalk, and charcoal or black chalk on tracing paper, laid down
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on cream wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack conté crayon(?), graphite, brown ink, and white gouache on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on cream 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 centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrench