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
Brown ink, black chalk, and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a decorative mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink, and brown wash over graphite, with touches of white gouache, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper
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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; verso: gray wash
18th centuryFrenchPen with black and brown ink, gray wash, watercolor, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper strips adhered to face, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor, black and red chalk, and white gouache on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black and brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchPastel on discolored blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite, pen and brown ink, watercolor and gouache, heightened with white, on paper
18th centuryFrench