19th century
61 x 39 cm (24 x 15 3/8 in.)
Gustave Doré, (L.681a); his sale, Paris, 1885, possibly lot 134; private collection, France; Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (as of 1996), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, inv. no. 2006.319
Black crayon and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on beige laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on cream wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and white gouache over graphite and black crayon, partially varnished with gum, on tracing paper, patched with tracing paper and reworked, laid down
19th centuryFrenchDistemper on wallpaper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk with erasure on cream antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on white laid antique paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and brown ink over traces of graphite on white paper
19th centuryFrenchTransparent and opaque watercolor, and graphite on paper
19th-20th centuryFrench