18th century
verso of mount, graphite: faint figure drawing
24.3 × 37.8 cm (9 9/16 × 14 7/8 in.) mount: 38.9 × 53.9 cm (15 5/16 × 21 1/4 in.)
Private Collection, France, sold; to [Gallerie Terrades, Paris, 2007], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2015.
Black ink and gray-brown wash over traces of graphite and white gouache on cream laid paper, framing line in brownish black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and graphite with guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and red-chalk wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in red chalk and brown ink, partially incised, laid down on cream antique laid paper, with blue laid paper strips adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchGray and tan wash over graphite on greenish antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cotton/linen, framing lines in graphite
18th centuryFrenchRed and white chalk on light brown antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper strips adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk over counterproof (?) on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchGouache on cream wove paper, laid down on a decorated mount
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on oiled, thin wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrench