c. 1720-1724
35.8 x 24.7 cm (14 1/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
Unidentified collector's mark (not in Lugt, lower left); sale, London, Christie's, 29 November 29 1983, lot 102 (as attributed to Michel François Dandré-Bardon), sold; to Jean Montague Massengale; her sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 2007, lot 123; John Massengale, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2010, inv. no. 2010.625
Gray and black-ink wash and white opaque watercolor with traces of black chalk on blue laid paper, adhered to cream card
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk 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, brown, and pink chalk, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th 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 centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, squared in black chalk
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk with touches of white chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk with framing lines in black ink on blue antique laid paper, laid down on off-white laid paper and mounted to white wove card
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrench