c. 1859 - 1861
actual: 32.2 x 24.7 cm (12 11/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Created, Atelier Degas sold at Vente I, no. 6b, 1918. Le Bateau-Lavoir, Paris, 1959. Marian Harris Phinney, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1962.
Black ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, black ink, and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on greenish-gray wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and yellow wash, adhered to blue wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on pale gray modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon over graphite, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black crayon
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor over graphite on cream modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, partially reworked in graphite, heavily applied, on tan wove paper
19th centuryFrench