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 ink and gray wash over black chalk on white laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite, with red chalk in the study at left, on cream modern laid paper. Badly foxed and discolored; old vertical centerfold.
19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, colored pencil and black ink on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchCut black paper with some graphite, laid down on black and white lithograph printed on cream paper, shadowing applied with black wash
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk, partially incised, on cream antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash, and graphite on off-white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrench