c. 1870
24.4 x 14.7 cm (9 5/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
Félix de Romilly, Paris, 1871 (Fr 600); returned to the artist; purchased from the artist through the dealer Beugniet by Alfred Hartmann, Mulhouse, June 1881 (Fr 2,000); his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 12-15, 1899, no. 311 (as "Aphrodite"; Fr 3,500); acquired at that sale by Louis Sarlin; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 2, 1918, no. 79 (as "Naissance de Vénus"); (Alfred?) Beurdeley; Scott and Fowles, New York; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, January 2, 1922 ($400); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Brown ink on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk, laid down on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on cream wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchTransparent and opaque watercolor on white wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite and watercolor on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchDistemper on wallpaper
19th centuryFrenchDark brown ink on white modern laid paper.
19th centuryFrench