Portrait of a Man in a 17th-Century Costume

Album of cream wove paper containing twelve drawings in brown and black ink with brown wash on cream wove paper (adhered to album leaves) for illustrations to the Fables of Jean-Pierre-Claris Florian. There are framing lines around each drawing in black and red ink. The album was bound by Chambolle-Duru in red leather with gilt decorations on the exterior, blue leather with gilt decorations on the interior, and marbled endpapers.

Colored pencil, graphite and black ink on off-white wove paper

Graphite and brown wash on cream wove paper

Black ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk, laid down on off-white antique laid paper

Watercolor, graphite, black ink, and gouache on tan wove paper

Graphite on paper

Black ink on tracing paper, adhered to laid paper

Red chalk on off-white antique laid paper

Graphite on cream wove paper

Graphite and brown, gray and red wash on white wove paper

Black crayon, squared in black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper

Black chalk with scraping on cream wove paper