1820-1821
27.4 × 37 × 0.5 cm (10 13/16 × 14 9/16 × 3/16 in.)
M. de Musigny, sold [through his sale, commissaire-priseur Bonnefons de la Vialle, Paris, March 8, 1845, lot 61]. Possibly François-Martial Marcille, Paris, by descent; to Camille Constantin Marcille (Lugt 605a), his son, Paris and Oisème, 1856, sold [through his sale, Hôtel Drouot, commissaire-priseur Charles Pillet, March 6-9, 1876, lot 84]; to M. Gerard. [Maurice Gobin, Paris, by 1935]. [1] Philip Hofer, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1960 [1] Gobin includes the stone in the 1935 exhibition "Dessins, aquarelles & gouaches par Gericault."
Red and black chalk, heightened with white, over graphite on tan wove paper, discolored
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite with splatters of watercolor on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on pale gray modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, black crayon, and white chalk on gray paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove card, the surface prepared with a hard, polished white ground; highlights scratched through the graphite with a sharp tool; background shading seems to have been stumped or stippled through a circular honeycomb mesh about 1 mm. in diameter
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, framing lines in black ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink with gray wash and white gouache over graphite on blue paper, faded
19th centuryFrench