c. 1768
26.4 × 40.1 cm (10 3/8 × 15 13/16 in.)
Sale, Drouot (Tajan), Paris, 18 May 2006, lot 69; Galerie Talabardon, Paris; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund and Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund, inv. no. 2007.137
Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white 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 centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGray ink and gray wash over black chalk on off-white laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper with folio 3a
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash and black chalk on pale green antique laid paper. Verso: Figural and architectura; sketches, graphite.
18th centuryFrenchParchment covered album with 96 bird studies executed in black ink and watercolor on 83 leaves of off-white antique laid paper (43 x 34.5 cm.). Some drawings have been pasted into the album, others were drawn directly on the album leaves.
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash over black crayon on cream antique laid paper, mounted on beige modern laid paper with folio 12a (possibly same paper as album sheets)
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench