Architectural Subject le Ministere de la Marine

Watercolor and brown wash over graphite on cream modern laid paper

Graphite, colored pencil and black ink on off-white wove paper

Conté crayon on beige modern laid paper

Brown wash over graphite on cream wove paper

Black ink on pale tan wove paper, darkened to reddish-brown

Brown wash over graphite on white wove paper

Pastel on blue-gray wove paper, faded to tan within previous mat opening.

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Black ink over graphite on off-white wove paper

Brown ink and brown wash on thin white wove paper

Album of cream wove paper containing twelve drawings in brown and black ink with brown wash on cream wove paper (adhered to album leaves) for illustrations to the Fables of Jean-Pierre-Claris Florian. There are framing lines around each drawing in black and red ink. The album was bound by Chambolle-Duru in red leather with gilt decorations on the exterior, blue leather with gilt decorations on the interior, and marbled endpapers.