c. 1713
15.5 x 19.6 cm (6 1/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, Paris; to his son, Louis-Pierre-Martin Norblin de la Gourdaine, Paris, by descent; Marie-Élise-Antoinette-Blanche-Francisca, Baronne Bajot de Connantre (or Conantré; née Symonet), Château de Connantre, Connantre; to her daughter, Marie-Blanche-Charlotte, Comtesse des Isnards-Suze (née Bajot de Connantre), Château de Suze-la-Rousse, Suze-la-Rousse, by descent (or to her other daughter, Anne-Blanche-Caroline, Baronne de Rublé, née Bajot de Connantre, Paris and Château de Rublé, Gimat, by descent); to her daughter, Eliane, Baronne de Witte (née des Isnards-Suze), Paris, by descent; to her daughter, Germaine, Marquise de Bryas (née de Witte), Château de Suze-la-Rousse, Suze-la-Rousse, by descent; Galerie Cailleux, Paris (by 1958), sold; to John S. Newberry, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John S. Newberry, inv. no. 1964.14
Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchred chalk (counterproof) on cream antique paper, adhered to blue cream antique laid paper strips
18th centuryFrenchColored chalks on faded blue antique laid paper, laid down on blue wove paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue laid paper
18th centuryFrench?Brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over black chalk on cream laid paper, top edge trimmed, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, graphite and white gouache on cream antique laid paper mounted to commercially prepared board
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on off-white antique laid paper prepared with blue-gray wash
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench