18th century
Peasant women fill their water pots at the antique well under a tree at the left; in the middle distance is a lake dotted with sailing vessels; at the right mountains rise steeply from the lake's shores.
16.6 x 21.6 cm (6 9/16 x 8 1/2 in.)
Pfaff. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash and red chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash with traces of red chalk on cream antique laid paper, adhered to blue wove card
18th centuryFrenchModern wove paper printed in black ink, annotated in brown and black ink and graphite, attached to a sheet of antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchPastel on discolored blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and black-chalk sauce, heightened with white chalk, on cream wove paper, prepared with blue ground
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown and gray-brown wash on cream modern laid paper; verso: black chalk and black ink
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, adhered to off-white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack, red and white chalk on beige antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench?