c. 1884-1887
110.6 x 124.7 cm (43 9/16 x 49 1/8 in.) frame: 127 x 139.7 x 5.7 cm (50 x 55 x 2 1/4 in.)
Madame Abel Desjardin, Paris. [Cesar de Hauke], sold [through Knoedler & Co., New York]; to Maurice Wertheim, 1947, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1951
Brown ink on cream wove paper, foxed, laid down. In some areas the acidic ink has eaten into the paper; pin holes at the four corners.
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash, and graphite on beige wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on white wove paper.
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tan paper
19th centuryFrenchCharcoal, black and white chalk, and traces of white opaque watercolor, squared in black chalk, on green-gray wove paper, discolored to tan
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and yellow wash, adhered to blue wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchPen and brown ink over graphite on calque, unframed
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, black crayon, and white chalk on gray paper
19th centuryFrenchGreen quarter-leather binding and green-speckled boards; twenty-nine pages of off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink with brown wash, on cream wove paper, framing lines in black and red ink
19th centuryFrench