c. 1790
33.8 x 24.9 cm (13 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.) framed: 55.88 x 47.94 x 6.35 cm (22 x 18 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Hippolyte Walferdin, Paris; his estate sale, Drouot (Escribe), Paris, 12-16 April 1880, lot 209, sold; to Albert Meyer, Paris; Camille Groult, Paris (by 1889); Wildenstein and Co., New York (by 1921), sold; to Charles E. Dunlap, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap, inv. no. 1955.186
Black 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 centuryFrenchGray and black-ink wash and white opaque watercolor with traces of black chalk on blue laid paper, adhered to cream card
18th centuryFrenchBrown and gray wash, black chalk, and traces of red chalk heightened with gum arabic(?) on cream antique laid paper prepared with gum arabic, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on oiled beige antique laid paper, mounted on beige modern laid paper (possibly same paper as album sheets)
18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised
17th-18th centuryFrenchGraphite and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, framing lines in black ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack crayon counterproof on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on off-white antique laid paper prepared with blue-gray wash
18th centuryFrench