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
Black ink, brown wash, and watercolor on cream antique laid paper, adhered to a decorative paper edge
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink with black, brown and dark gray wash, over black chalk, on off-white wove paper prepared with light gray wash
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on toned (?) cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchChalk on paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and charcoal on off-white wove paper, mounted to light tan laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed, black and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper adhered to gray antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench