late 1770s
33.4 x 45.4 cm (13 1/8 x 17 7/8 in.)
Jacques Doucet; Madame Noël Bardac, Paris; Therese Kuhn Straus, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1978, inv. no. 1978.24
Watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper, extended on three sides on the upper left and right, framing lines in red chalk and brown ink
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, black chalk, and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a decorative mount
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink and black chalk
18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink and gray wash, over red chalk, on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, on discolored blue paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink, and graphite
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and white gouache on blue paper, discolored to brown, laid down, framing lines in black ink
17th-18th centuryFrenchBrown and gray wash, black chalk, and traces of red chalk heightened with gum arabic(?) on cream antique laid paper prepared with gum arabic, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray wash over traces of black crayon on off-white laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrench