19th century
actual: 6 x 13.5 cm (2 3/8 x 5 5/16 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
Crayon
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and adhered to white card and mounted to rag paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove card, the surface prepared with a hard, polished white ground; highlights scratched through the graphite with a sharp tool; background shading seems to have been stumped or stippled through a circular honeycomb mesh about 1 mm. in diameter
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk
19th centuryFrenchGraphite with splatters of watercolor on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, graphite and colored pencil on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrench