Jules and Edmond de Goncourt

Black chalk and white gouache on cream wove paper

Distemper on wallpaper

Black chalk and graphite over stylus lines on cream wove paper (the verso of an engraving by Cipriani)

Black chalk or charcoal with touches of oil(?) on tracing paper, mounted to card

Black chalk and charcoal on off-white wove paper, mounted to light tan laid paper

Gray wash, black and brown ink, over traces of black chalk on off-white paper

Gouache and watercolor over graphite on off-white Japan paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper

Black chalk, black crayon, white chalk, brown and blue-green watercolor and white gouache on brown laid 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

Transparent and opaque watercolor on white wove paper

Watercolor over black chalk on off-white wove paper

Graphite on white wove paper