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 and wash on beige paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, white gouache, and brown ink over graphite and partial stylus outlining, on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on white wove paper, edges ruled with black ink
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and black, red and green ink on brown wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and black-chalk sauce, heightened with white chalk, on cream wove paper, prepared with blue ground
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack conté crayon on white laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, white gouache, and metalpoint on prepared white laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk with traces of charcoal with scraping on cream antique laid paper; graphite outline on palette and lower edge of coat lapels (later addition?)
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on white wove paper
19th centuryFrench