19th century
actual: 3.2 x 9.8 cm (1 1/4 x 3 7/8 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 and white chalk on buff laid paper; verso: black chalk
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and white gouache over graphite, squared in graphite, on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor over graphite on cream wove paper; verso: graphite
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tan wove paper
19th-20th 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 centuryFrenchBlack ink with gray wash and white gouache over graphite on blue paper, faded
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon over graphite, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue wove paper, laid down
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite
19th centuryFrench