c. 1882-1883
24 × 31 cm (9 7/16 × 12 3/16 in.) framed: 46 × 53.7 × 4.4 cm (18 1/8 × 21 1/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
Paul Signac (1863-1935), Paris, by 1926; [1] to Berthe Paul Signac (née Roblès), Paris. [Valentin Gallery, New York]. [Parke-Bernet, New York, March 30, 1949, lot 26]. Therese Kuhn Straus, New York, 1951, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1978 Notes [1] Listed as Collection P.S. in 1926 Bernheim-Jeune exhibition.
Black chalk, charcoal, and red chalk on off-white wove paper, adhered to a decorated mount
18th-19th centuryFrenchBound folio volume, three-quarters green parchment binding, green marbled boards, rubbed at all edges, upper cover seperated at spine. Inscribed in black ink along spine: Dessins. The folios are off-white modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink over graphite on heavy tan wove paper
19th centuryFrench, BurgundianBrown wash over graphite on white wove paper, edges ruled with black ink
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream paper, darkened
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and black colored pencil on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite [?] black colored pencil [?]
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk, gray and brown wash on cream modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, traces of graphite on white laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk counterproof on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue paper faded to tan
18th-19th centuryFrench