Portrait of the Marquis de Besplas

Red and white chalk over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Bound folio volume, three-quarters green parchment binding, green marbled boards, rubbed at all edges, upper cover seperated at spine. Inscribed in black ink along spine: Dessins. The folios are off-white modern laid paper

Gray wash and black chalk

Black ink, gray wash, and graphite on beige wove paper

Black crayon on tan paper

Black crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper

Offset or transfer(?) and graphite on wove paper

Black crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper

Black ink on tracing paper, laid down

Black ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper