18th century
26.5 x 17.3 cm (10 7/16 x 6 13/16 in.)
Anatole France, Paris (according to inscription on mount); Sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 July 2000, lot 49; Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston; sold to Harvard Art Museum, 2008
Brown wash, black chalk and white gouache, framing lines in red chalk (?), on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
18th centuryItalianWatercolor, with accents of gouache, over graphite on cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryItalianBrown ink over graphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryItalianBrown ink and gray wash, and some graphite, on off-white antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryItalianGraphite on dark cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper adhered to cream card; verso: black chalk
18th centuryItalianBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryItalianBlack ink and graphite, framing line in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryItalianRed chalk applied wet on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryItalianBlack and white chalk on gray prepared wove paper
18th-19th centuryItalianBrown ink over graphite on white antique laid paper
18th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash over red chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryItalian