c. 1868-1870
22.8 × 31 cm (9 × 12 3/16 in.) frame: 43.2 × 49.5 cm (17 × 19 1/2 in.)
Degas studio sale (part IV), Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 3, 1919, no. 209a; purchased at that sale by Reginald Davis; Scott and Fowles, New York; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, July 13, 1923 ($500); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Black and white chalk on blue laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite with touches of black ink on tracing paper, mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor heightened with white over graphite on gray-blue paper
19th centuryFrenchTransparent and opaque watercolor on off-white modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and white gouache on cream paper, darkened to brown
19th centuryFrench?Graphite, pen and brown ink, blue and brown wash on off-white modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on buff wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite, black chalk, colored chalk, and colored crayon on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, touches of red and white chalk, tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGray wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in red ink, adhered to cream wove card border
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
18th-19th centuryFrench