c. 1884-1888
30.5 x 23.3 cm (12 x 9 3/16 in.) frame: 48.3 x 40.6 x 3.2 cm (19 x 16 x 1 1/4 in.)
The artist until 1891 (Posthumous inventory, dessin. no. 300). Probably given by the artist's family to the Symbolist critic Francis Vielé-Griffin in 1891. Félix Fénélon, Paris, by 1928. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Joseph Sullivan, New York, by 1929, until 1937, sold (through their sale, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, April 30, 1937, no. 202); to John H. Lutz for Maurice Wertheim, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1951
Black and white chalk on light tan paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash, white gouache, red ink, and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, black ink, watercolor, and gouache on cream laid paper
19th centuryFrenchCharcoal with touches of white chalk on blue paper faded to brown
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack wash on 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 on pale gray modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor over graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrenchColored chalk on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream paper
19th-20th centuryFrench