1887-1888
30.7 x 23.4 cm (12 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.) framed: 57 x 47.5 cm (22 7/16 x 18 11/16 in.)
Émile Verhaeren, Brussels, by 1892 (d. 1916); M. and Mme Émile Laffon, Paris; their sale, Savoy Hotel, Zürich, April 8, 1938, no. 74 (bought in; CHF 141,000); acquired from Mme Laffon through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1939 (Fr 150,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Brown ink over graphite on heavy tan wove paper
19th centuryFrench, BurgundianBlack, red, and white chalk on blue-gray paper, discolored to gray-green
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to folded laid paper
19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrench
Black ink and white gouache on brown paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on white wove paper
19th centuryFrench