19th century
actual: 6.4 x 8.8 cm (2 1/2 x 3 7/16 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
Transparent and opaque watercolor with graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, charcoal, and red chalk on off-white wove paper, adhered to a decorated mount
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on buff wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBound folio volume, three-quarters green parchment binding, green marbled boards, rubbed at all edges, upper cover seperated at spine. Inscribed in black ink along spine: Dessins. The folios are off-white modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white modern laid paper, laid down overall and counterlined
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on heavy off-white paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite on dark cream laid paper, laid down to off-white wove paper (platemark on secondary support)
19th centuryFrenchBlue crayon on dark cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on darkened tracing paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchWatercolor on tan wove paper.
19th centuryFrench