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
Watercolor, gouache, pastel, and lead-white, with scratching and light varnish, on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and adhered to white card and mounted to rag paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, squared, on beige laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and black crayon on off-white modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown wash and black ink on buff wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash over black chalk on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on off-white laid paper
19th centuryFrenchPastel
19th-20th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash, black ink border, on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and/or black chalk on off-white wove paper darkened to brown-gray
19th centuryFrench