Allegorical Design for a Ceiling, or Apotheosis of Louis XIV

Brown and gray ink with colored washes on off-white antique laid paper

Oiled black chalk heightened with white on tinted tan antique laid paper

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on verso of counterproof

Brown ink on white antique laid paper

Brown ink on cream antique laid paper

Brown, blue, pink, and yellow washes over red chalk, squared in black chalk on tan antique laid paper, backed with cloth, itself laid down

Black ink and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper

Red chalk heightened with white chalk on blue antique laid paper

Brown ink and brown wash squared with black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Brown ink with gray wash on blue antique laid paper

Red chalk on white antique laid paper

Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper