1778
20.9 x 34 cm (8 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.)
Sale, Christie’s, London, 20 March 1973, lot 137; Julius Böhler, Munich; private collection, Austria; sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 22 November 2008, lot 1430; Didier Aaron et Cie, Paris, sold; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund, Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund, through the generosity of Virgilia Klein, Bunge North America Corporation, and David M. Leventhal, and the Drawing Department Acquisition Fund, inv. no. 2009.74
Red chalk and graphite with guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with discolored blue antique laid paper adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and graphite with guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on light tan wove paper, squared in black chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink, and brown wash over graphite, with touches of white gouache, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchGray ink, gray and brown wash on white laid paper, laid down to blue antique paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown and gray wash, black chalk, and traces of red chalk heightened with gum arabic(?) on cream antique laid paper prepared with gum arabic, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBrown and black ink, gray and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black chalk
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchVerso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench