c. 1868 - 1870
actual: 23.6 x 48.3 cm (9 5/16 x 19 in.)
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Created, Atelier Degas sold at Vente IV, no. 136c, 1919. Marcel Bing. Vignier. Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1965. Lent to Fogg in 1936
Colored chalks over black chalk and graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th-19th centuryFrenchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on white wove paper on two sheets, joined; verso: graphite
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack, red, and white crayon on tan wove paper, darkened.
19th centuryFrenchPastel over monotype in black ink on white modern laid paper, discolored to tan
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, with opaque white heightening, on cream paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on two pieces of off-white laid paper, partial framing lines in black chalk
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchVernet: Brown in on off-white modern laid paper. The acidic ink has eated into the paper (17.7 cm x 11.3 cm). Pujol: Brown ink on white wove paper laid down to the sheet with the Vernet caricature (5 cm x 6.2 cm).
18th-19th centuryFrench