c. 1856
actual: 47.6 x 30.9 cm (18 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.)
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Atelier Degas sold at Vente IV, no. 95c, 1919. Scott & Fowles, New York, Purchased from Atelier Degas?, Sold to Grenville L. Winthrop, 10/16/20; Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Watercolor, gouache, pastel, and lead-white, with scratching and light varnish, on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite and gray wash on off-white modern laid paper.
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite on white modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, with opaque white heightening, on cream paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and adhered to wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchConté crayon and white opaque watercolor on beige laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper (a copy of "Proclamation de l'Empereur")
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on darkened tracing paper
19th-20th centuryFrench