1857
41.9 x 33 cm (16 1/2 x 13 in.)
The artist, gift; to Mme Alexandre (Flore) Singer, gift; to Emile Ollivier. [Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 2, 1960, lot 1 (as "L'Inspiration du poète"), sold]; to [Germain Seligman, New York (his stamp, lower right)]. [possibly Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London]. [Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara, sold, August 1, 1978]; to David P. Becker, bequeathed; to Harvard Art Museums, 2011
Black chalk, black wash, white gouache, white chalk, and graphite, squared in graphite, on pieced tan laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, black ink, and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on blue modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, colored pencil and black ink on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream paper, darkened
19th centuryFrenchDark brown ink and black crayon on off-white paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack conté crayon(?), graphite, brown ink, and white gouache on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and white chalk on tan wove paper, darkened, laid down
19th centuryFrench