19th century
actual: 7.8 x 12.3 cm (3 1/16 x 4 13/16 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
Brown ink on white 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 centuryFrenchRed chalk on blue modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink with brown wash, on cream wove paper, framing lines in black and red ink
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, colored pencil and black ink on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchPastel on blue modern laid paper, faded
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and brown wash with touches of white chalk on oiled antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite and white chalk on tan wove paper, darkened, laid down
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, gouache, and graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on wove oatmeal paper; verso: graphite
19th centuryFrench