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.
Brown ink and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, black chalk, and white gouache on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black chalk, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, watercolor, graphite, and white gouache on off-white 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 centuryFrenchBrown wash over black chalk and graphite, with touches of white gouache on cream antique laid paper toned with brown wash, with framing lines in black chalk and brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper decorated with blue antique laid paper strips adhered to face, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed, black and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBrush and pale and dark gray wash over black chalk on white laid paper. Verso: brush and brown and pale and dark gray wash over black chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to gray antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown and black ink, brown and gray wash, black and red chalk, and off-white oil paint on cream antique laid paper, incised for transfer, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper (remnant of a register of names), adhered to a decorated mount
17th-18th centuryFrenchRed chalk over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench