1856
15.4 x 10.9 cm (6 1/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Ernest (?) Chausson, sold [through Nouvelle Galerie Simonson, Paris, December 16, 1933, lot 525 ("La Veillée dans un Intérieur Moldave, étude prep. pour la gravure (Bonvenne 56) en contre-partie. Dessin à la plume sur papier bis. Signé et daté sur la hotte de cheminée: Rodolphe Bresdin 1856. 150 x 105."]. Louis Godefroy, Paris. [Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern, June 13-14, 1974, lot 78]. [Robert M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara], sold; to David P. Becker, Portland, Maine, 1977, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2004.
Black ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue wove paper, laid down
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on tracing paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack ink and black chalk on tan modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, gray ink and gray wash, watercolor, white gouache, over graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and graphite on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on beige wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon over graphite, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
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