18th century
55.4 × 41.3 cm (21 13/16 × 16 1/4 in.) mount: 59.7 × 44.4 cm (23 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.)
Lannoy Collection. Baron Doctor Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984), London, Rome, and Jersey, by descent; to Ver Heyden de Lancey family. [Colnaghi, London, by 1986]. Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 1986, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018
Pastel over traces of black chalk on blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and graphite with guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray-brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and black chalk, blue paper borders adhered to face, laid down on a decorated mount with remnant of a ledger from 1713 on the verso
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray wash with traces of white gouache on blue laid paper, with framing lines in brown ink, laid down on blue laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash, with touches of brown wash, over traces of graphite and black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper, with partial framing lines in graphite and brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
18th centuryFrenchRed and brown chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on oiled antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised
17th-18th centuryFrenchRed, black and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrench