19th century
actual: 6.5 x 14.5 cm (2 9/16 x 5 11/16 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
Red chalk over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and brown wash on cream laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream wove paper, foxed, laid down. In some areas the acidic ink has eaten into the paper; pin holes at the four corners.
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, graphite, and white chalk on tan wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash with traces of white opaque watercolor on thick off-white wove paper with embossed decorative border
19th centuryFrenchTransparent and opaque watercolor, black colored pencil and graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite with white chalk accents on tracing paper, backed
19th centuryFrenchGraphite with touches of black chalk on tan wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown-black ink on beige modern laid paper
19th centuryFrench