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.
Charcoal and black chalk on tan wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite with touches of black chalk on tan wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on two pieces of off-white laid paper, partial framing lines in black chalk
19th centuryFrenchColored pencil and black ink on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache over graphite on white wove paper on two sheets, joined; verso: graphite
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream wove paper, foxed, laid down. In some areas the acidic ink has eaten into the paper; pin holes at the four corners.
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper with a laid paper framing mount
19th centuryFrench