c. 1787-1790
38 × 30.8 cm (14 15/16 × 12 1/8 in.) mount: 48.4 × 40.7 cm (19 1/16 × 16 in.)
The artist’s estate, by descent; to Adélaïde-Marie Moitte (née Castellas), Paris, sold [through her estate sale, Commissaire-Priseur Thierry, Paris, August 20-21, 1807, lot 26]. Possibly Henri Auguste, Paris, before 1816. Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, Paris. [Maison Odiot, Paris]. [Galerie Chantal Kiener, Paris], sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 2005, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018
Black chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on light tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on oiled antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper, extended on three sides on the upper left and right, framing lines in red chalk and brown ink
17th-18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on discolored blue antique laid paper, squared in black chalk
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench