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 tan antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchGraphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
18th centuryFrenchColored chalk on tan paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: gray and brown wash over graphite
18th centuryFrenchGraphite, brown ink, and brown wash with touches of white gouache on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in black ink
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream 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 centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchColored chalks on buff antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and yellow wash, adhered to blue wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrench