1897
16.2 x 12.3 cm (6 3/8 x 4 13/16 in.)
Marie Closset (pen name Jean Dominique), gift to May Sarton. given to May Sarton before Closset's death in 1952 May Sarton, gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1964.
Black ink and graphite on tracing paper, mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchAlbum of cream wove paper containing twelve drawings in brown and black ink with brown wash on cream wove paper (adhered to album leaves) for illustrations to the Fables of Jean-Pierre-Claris Florian. There are framing lines around each drawing in black and red ink. The album was bound by Chambolle-Duru in red leather with gilt decorations on the exterior, blue leather with gilt decorations on the interior, and marbled endpapers.
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and black-chalk sauce, heightened with white chalk, on cream wove paper, prepared with blue ground
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache over graphite on off-white laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor over graphite on brown cardboard, mounted to cardboard
19th-20th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on cream wove paper, darkened
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on cream wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack ink, graphite and colored pencil on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrench