1879
45 x 28.9 cm (17 11/16 x 11 3/8 in.) frame: 71.1 x 55.9 cm (28 x 22 in.)
Atelier Degas, [sold at Vente III, no. 344a, 1919]. [César M. de Hauke], sold to Paul J. Sachs, 1930, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.
Black ink and graphite on cream wove paper; verso: graphite
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and black crayon on off-white modern laid paper, abraded over entire surface
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and black chalk over stylus outlines, square in graphite, on tan wove paper, laid down.
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and brown wash over graphite on cream modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove card; the surface prepared with a hard, polished white ground; highlights scratched through the graphite with a sharp tool; background shading seems to have been stumped or stippled through a circular honeycomb mesh about 1 mm. in diameter
19th centuryFrenchGray ink over graphite on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and white chalk on tracing paper, laid down
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and prepared black chalk on thin off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrench