c. 1646
33.5 x 18 cm (13 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.) with extensions: 31.3 x 18 cm (12 5/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Possibly Chevalier Louis-Jean-François Collet, Paris and Parma; possibly his sale, Paris, Lebrun, 14-23 May 1787, lot 128; possibly Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, Paris; possibly his sale, Paris, Lebrun, 11-30 April 1791, part of lot 318; Jean Gigoux, Paris (without his mark, L. 1164); Henri Baderou, Rouen; Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, L.3863, lower right); R.M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara (by 1978); Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louis Haskell Daly Fund, 1984.593
Red and white chalk on tan antique laid paper
17th centuryFrenchBlack chalk underdrawing, pen, brown ink, white gouache, and brown wash on toned cream antique laid paper
17th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and graphite over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream wove paper
17th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk with touches of red chalk on tan antique laid paper, adhered to blue wove paper
17th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, squared in black chalk
17th-18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk, gray and red-chalk wash, and touches of brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines and guidelines in red chalk, laid down on off-white paper, laid down on a decorated mount, laid down on blue-green wove paper
17th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash on parchment
16th-17th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on dark tan antique laid paper
17th centuryFrench