Le Retardataire

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

Black crayon, black ink, watercolor, and gouache on cream laid paper

Black chalk with traces of charcoal with scraping on cream antique laid paper; graphite outline on palette and lower edge of coat lapels (later addition?)

Black ink on heavy off-white paper

Charcoal and white chalk on beige-pink paper

Black crayon on off-white antique laid paper

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

Graphite on beige laid paper, laid down to off-white wove paper (platemark on secondary support)

graphite and brown wash on cream modern laid paper, laid down to blue antique laid paper

Black crayon on buff wove paper

Watercolor

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