c. 1879
actual: 32.5 x 25 cm (12 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
[Durand-Ruel, New York], sold to Paul J. Sachs, 1929, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.
Graphite on tan modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack colored pencil [?] on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper (a copy of "Proclamation de l'Empereur")
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black crayon
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove card; the surface prepared with a hard, polished white ground; highlights scratched through the graphite with a sharp tool; background shading seems to have been stumped or stippled through a circular honeycomb mesh about 1 mm. in diameter
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, with a ruled border line in brown ink, on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, laid down
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrench