c. 1770
37.8 × 52.7 cm (14 7/8 × 20 3/4 in.)
The artist’s estate; his second estate sale, Chariot, Paris, 14 December 1778 and the following days, part of lot 90, sold; to Alexandre-Joseph Paillet, Paris; Charles-François-René, Chevalier Mesnard de Clesle, Paris; his estate sale, Thierry, Paris, 2 January 1804, lot 18; Stephen Higgon, Paris; Charles E. Dunlap, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap, inv. no. 1957.51
Red, black, and white chalk on toned cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on tan antique laid paper, laid down on off-white laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash, and graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchVerso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchpen, brown ink, brush and brown wash on cream antique-laid paper (affixed to old mount)
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk drawing mounted within a book on Prud'hon
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench