after 1808
actual: 16.5 x 14.6 cm (6 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.)
Achille Leclère. Achille Lecère and heirs Mme Fassier. Claude Darton, Avignon.
Graphite on cream wove card; the surface prepared with a hard, polished white ground; highlights scratched through the graphite with a sharp tool; background shading seems to have been stumped or stippled through a circular honeycomb mesh about 1 mm. in diameter
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19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on green wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, with red chalk in the study at left, on cream modern laid paper. Badly foxed and discolored; old vertical centerfold.
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and watercolor on off-white wove paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache over black chalk
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper, darkened
19th-20th centuryFrenchIron-gall ink over graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrench