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
Red chalk on cream antique-laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on 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 and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, adhered to tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray wash, incised, on blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, laid down on Japan paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchModern wove paper printed and annotated in black ink, attached to a sheet of modern wove paper, with old label from Johns Hopkins University attached to right edge.
18th centuryFrenchBrownish red and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchPen and dark brown ink over graphite on cream modern laid paper; verso: pen and brown ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on greenish wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrench