c. 1861 (recto); c. 1854-56 (verso)
There are faint very faint studies on the recto: a cloaked figure to the left of Christ's legs, and the outline of the legs and spear of a soldier below the Cross. The verso includes a faint image of a horse's head just above the Degas stamp.
31 x 23.9 cm (12 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchgraphite and brown wash on cream modern laid paper, laid down to blue antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on three sheets of white laid paper, joined vertically at left and horizontally on top.
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and black crayon on off-white modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, gray and black wash, and white gouache on brown wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and watercolor on cream wove paper (discolored)
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchCharcoal and pastel on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrench