1818
20.3 x 29.9 cm (8 x 11 3/4 in.)
Possibly Alexandre Colin sale, [thorugh Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 22, 1859, no. 42 ("Groupe de trois figures, études pour la Méduse, à la plume"; Fr 42)]. Possibly Pierre-Olivier Dubaut, Paris. Claude Roger-Marx, Paris, acquired from him through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, 1929, his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943
Black and white chalk on tan paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and charcoal, extensively stumped, with touches of red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper borders adhered to face
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite (?) on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on buff wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack and brown wash and black ink on buff wove paper
19th centuryFrenchPale and dark gray wash over black chalk on white laid paper
19th centuryFrench