1732
52.7 × 38.9 cm (20 3/4 × 15 5/16 in.)
Duvivier family, 18th Century, Paris, sold [through their sale, Nouveau Drouot, Paris, commissaires-Priseurs Mes Audap, Godeau, Solanet, October 29, 1987, part of lot 61 as by circle of Antoine Coypel]. [1] [Christie's, London, July 5, 1988, lot 119, as by Louis Galloche]. [Christie's, London, July 7, 1992, lot 227]. Marcello Aldega and Margot Gordon, New York. Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 2001, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018 Notes [1] The Nouveau Drouot sale notes that all of the drawings are from an album compiled by the Duviver family
Watercolor and touches of black ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor, white gouache, black ink, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, guidelines in graphite
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite over brown printing ink on white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite, brown ink, and brown wash with touches of white gouache on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in black ink
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash and black chalk on pale green antique laid paper. Verso: Figural and architectura; sketches, graphite.
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove card
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, adhered to a decorated mount, extended at top
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack, red, and white chalk on discolored blue antique laid paper, laid down on off-white card, adhered to cream card, faced with blue laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench