c. 1855?
actual: 35.3 x 26.6 cm (13 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
Graphite and colored pencil on off-white wove paper.
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on toned cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash, and graphite on beige wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite 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
19th centuryFrenchChalk on paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite and white chalk on tan wove paper, darkened, laid down
19th centuryFrenchDistemper on wallpaper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, partially incised; verso: rubbed with red chalk
18th-19th centuryFrench