1893-1897
70.8 x 57.3 cm (27 7/8 x 22 9/16 in.) frame: 82.6 x 69.5 x 4 cm (32 1/2 x 27 3/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
Adolphe Tavernier, Paris, sold [through Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 6, 1900, lot 114]. Sarah Choate Sears, Boston, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1927.
Black ink over graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash, on cream paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down
19th centuryFrench?Black ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tracing paper, darkened
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchTransparent watercolor and graphite on off-white laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on off-white laid paper
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 centuryFrench