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, darkened
19th-20th centuryFrenchgraphite on white modern laid paper; touches of gray watercolor at the upper corners
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchRed chalk and black crayon
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon with touches of graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink with touches of blue watercolor on off-white laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and charcoal, extensively stumped, with touches of red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite and gray wash, squared in graphite, on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and black and gray wash, probably over graphite, framing lines in black ink, on off-white antique laid paper (laid down)
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed crayon on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrench