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.
Graphite or black colored pencil [?] on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on two pieces of off-white laid paper, partial framing lines in black chalk
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchCharcoal on light tan wove paper, discolored
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to folded laid paper
19th centuryFrench