19th century
Compare ass with lowered head (to the left, below the Flight into Egypt) with the etching Van Gelder, 138I, 1871.
actual: 22.4 x 11.4 cm (8 13/16 x 4 1/2 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
Black ink and graphite on tracing paper, mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on pale gray modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on darkened tracing paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk and brown ink on faded blue laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on buff laid paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchHard and soft graphite with touches of white chalk on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink with brown wash, on cream wove paper, framing lines in black and red ink
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on gray wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink, brown and gray wash, over black chalk on off white antique laid paper, laid down on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrench