1805-1806
23.7 x 17.9 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Jacques-Louis David, David Estate sale, Paris, A. N. Pérignon, 1826. sale, April 17, 1826, lot 75 or 79 Duchesse de Bassano, to her daughter Mlle de Bassano. Mademoiselle de Bassano. Martin Birnbaum, purchased from Mlle de Bassano, 1937, for Grenville L. Winthrop. Grenville Lindall Winthrop, purchased 1937, bequest to Fogg, 1943.
Charcoal on off-white paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, gouache, and lead-white, with some scratching, on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchEssence on brown wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper (a copy of "Proclamation de l'Empereur")
19th-20th centuryFrenchDistemper on wallpaper
19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and adhered to folded wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack, red and white chalk on blue wove paper, discolored to brown
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on brown wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite, white chalk, and charcoal or black chalk on tracing paper, laid down
19th centuryFrench