18th century
Above, at the left, a monument is erected upon a supporting arch in a temple. Below, an ancient sacrificial scene in which a great crowd is gathered in front of a vast arcade; at the left near an altar a priest raises his weapon to sacrifice the maiden standing beside an altar.
irregular: 23.9 x 25.9 cm (9 7/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Maurice de Fleury. Richard Owen, Paris, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932
Black chalk on beige laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on light-tan antique laid paper, joined and pieced with the artist's corrections on seven additional irregular pieces of the same paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a Mariette mount
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on light tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchParchment covered album with 96 bird studies executed in black ink and watercolor on 83 leaves of off-white antique laid paper (43 x 34.5 cm.). Some drawings have been pasted into the album, others were drawn directly on the album leaves.
18th centuryFrenchGouache on off-white wove paper, lined with Japan paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink over black chalk on off-white paper
18th centuryFrenchGray ink and brown wash over graphite on white laid paper, laid down to the blue antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk, watercolor and graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on to off-white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray wash over traces of black crayon on off-white laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrench