A Café Interior

Graphite

Album of cream wove paper containing twelve drawings in brown and black ink with brown wash on cream wove paper (adhered to album leaves) for illustrations to the Fables of Jean-Pierre-Claris Florian. There are framing lines around each drawing in black and red ink. The album was bound by Chambolle-Duru in red leather with gilt decorations on the exterior, blue leather with gilt decorations on the interior, and marbled endpapers.

Black ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to folded laid paper

Charcoal and white chalk on gray laid paper

Black and brown wash and black ink on buff wove paper

Watercolor on cream antique laid paper

Prepared black chalk on off-white modern laid paper

Black chalk with scraping on cream wove paper

Graphite on white wove paper

Graphite 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