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.
Brown wash over graphite on heavy cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, black crayon, and white chalk on gray paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, with red chalk in the study at left, on cream modern laid paper. Badly foxed and discolored; old vertical centerfold.
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on beige laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, black ink, graphite, and black crayon on cream wove paper, two sheets joined irregularly across center
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack, red and white chalk on blue wove paper, discolored to brown
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on white wove paper
19th centuryFrench