19th century
actual: 4 x 9 cm (1 9/16 x 3 9/16 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, graphite, colored pencil and black ink on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, brush and brown washes, heightened with white gouache on off-white paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, gouache, and graphite, with gum varnish, on tracing paper, laid down
19th centuryFrenchCharcoal on tan wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and white chalk on buff wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, brown wash, and white gouache on tan wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache on prepared (?) wove paper, darkened and faded
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black chalk on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite 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 centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and adhered to white card and mounted to rag paper
19th centuryFrench