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 and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
18th centuryFrenchRed, brown, and pink chalk, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th-18th centuryFrenchModern wove paper printed in black ink, annotated in brown and black ink and graphite, attached to a sheet of antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over graphite on antique laid paper toned with blue wash
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash with watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
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 centuryFrenchBlack chalk and charcoal on off-white wove paper, mounted to light tan laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchColored chalks over black chalk and graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown wash and black chalk, with traces of red chalk, on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite and brown wash on white wove paper.
18th-19th centuryFrench