19th century
actual: 13.8 x 12.5 cm (5 7/16 x 4 15/16 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
Black ink on tracing paper, laid down to cardboard
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and graphite on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on darkened tracing paper, mounted down to laid paper with no. 1993.138
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, gray and black wash, white gouache; foxing on cream wove 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 centuryFrenchDistemper on wallpaper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor over graphite and black chalk on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, adhered to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchColored pencil on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream modern laid paper
19th centuryFrench