18th century
51 x 38.1 cm (20 1/16 x 15 in.)
[Christie's, London, November 29, 1977, lot 193 (as Jean Marie Vien)] sold; to Jean Massengale; [Sotheby's, London, July 4, 2007, lot 103, repr. (bought in)]; John Massengale, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2010
Black and white chalk on blue antique laid paper; verso: graphite and touches of white chalk
18th centuryFrenchMarble paper-covered boards and black leather spine; thirty pages of off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchColored chalks on buff 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 ink, brown and gray wash, white gouache and black and white chalk with some stumping, on light brown 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 centuryFrenchRed chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on light tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk counterproof on off-white 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 centuryFrenchGraphite on white paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk with traces of white chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink and black chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrench