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
Brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on greenish wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and charcoal on off-white laid paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack chalk with erasure on cream antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchPen and brown ink over graphite on calque, unframed
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor over graphite on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on oiled antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrench