19th century
Compare ass with lowered head (to the left, below the Flight into Egypt) with the etching Van Gelder, 138I, 1871.
actual: 22.4 x 11.4 cm (8 13/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Rodolphe Bresdin. estate stamp (not in Lugt) Paul Bresdin. artist's son D. G. Santee Landweer, Amsterdam, 1930. D. Loenen, Amsterdam. Adolph Schwarz, Amsterdam-Amstelveen. Robert M. Light and Co., Santa Barbara, CA. Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, purchased from R.M. Light & Co., 1991, sold to HUAM, 1993. Long term loan to HUAM from June 1991 to 1993
Black ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGray wash and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, gray and black wash, white gouache; foxing on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, with opaque white heightening, on cream paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink over graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite
19th centuryFrenchGouache on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite, gouache, and watercolor on white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, brown ink, graphite on cream paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on cream modern laid paper, laid down to slightly larger sheet of similar paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, gouache, and graphite, with gum varnish, on tracing paper, laid down
19th centuryFrench