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 ink and gray-brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and black chalk, blue paper borders adhered to face, laid down on a decorated mount with remnant of a ledger from 1713 on the verso
18th centuryFrenchColored chalk on tan paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash on cream laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a decorative mount
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, adhered to cream card
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove card
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper attached to a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash, black ink framing line on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench?Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown and black ink, gray and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor on cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrench