19th century
39.5 x 28 cm (15 9/16 x 11 in.)
Ambrose Vollard, Paris. [Barbizon House, London]. [Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris]. [Galerie Fritz Nathan, Zurich]. [Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, New York]. [R. M. Light & Co., Boston] sold; to Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979.
Black colored pencil [?] on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite on tan modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on tracing paper; verso: traces of brown oil paint above and below tiger and along top of his back
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: watercolor and black chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchCharcoal, gray wash, and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on off-white modern laid paper, discolored
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk
19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on tracing paper, darkened, laid down
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 centuryFrenchGraphite on thin buff wove tracing paper
19th centuryFrench