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 wash over graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, pen and black and brown ink, watercolor, and brown wash, with a border in red crayon, on white wove paper, laid down
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on pale gray modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on beige laid paper, laid down to off-white wove paper (platemark on secondary support)
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite on tracing paper, darkened
19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown wash and black ink on buff wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and opaque white watercolor on dark tan wove paper
19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on oiled antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrench