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.
Graphite on cream wove paper, discolored.
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, with touches of brown ink, on cream paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to folded laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and blue, brown and gray washes over graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache, with scratching and varnish, on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, brown ink, graphite on cream paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and adhered to white card and mounted to rag paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack ink and graphite on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream wove paper; verso: graphite
19th centuryFrench