18th century
actual: 41 x 24.8 cm (16 1/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979.127
Black chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchTracings, mostly in graphite, occasionally supplemented with gray wash, on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, white gouache and black and white chalk with some stumping, on light brown antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk and gray wash
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash with watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on heavy cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount with blue paper strips adhered to face
18th centuryFrench