18th century
43.8 x 30.5 cm (17 1/4 x 12 in.)
Sale, New York, Sotheby's, January 13, 1988, lot 239 (as Jean-Robert Ango), sold; to Jean Montague Massengale; her sale, London, Sotheby's, July 4, 2007, lot 101 (as attributed to Jean-Robert Ango); John Massengale, by descent, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2010, inv. no. 2010.615
Brown ink on cream wove paper, foxed, laid down. In some areas the acidic ink has eaten into the paper; pin holes at the four corners.
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown crayon and gray wash on oiled beige antique laid paper, mounted on beige modern laid paper (possibly same paper as album sheets)
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and black and gray wash, probably over graphite, framing lines in black ink, on off-white antique laid paper (laid down)
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk counterproof on cream antique laid paper, laid down on tan laid paper, framing line in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to gray 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 centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, black chalk, and graphite with guidelines in graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and red chalk wash with touches of black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, laid down on tan antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench