c. 1859-1860
image: 22.6 x 14.5 cm (8 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.) sheet: 24.2 x 16 cm (9 1/2 x 6 5/16 in.)
[Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, June 1936, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Black and white chalk drawing mounted within a book on Prud'hon
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