c. 1765
41.4 x 29.1 cm (16 5/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Possibly Jacques-Gabriel Huquier, Paris and London (possibly his mark, L.1285, lower left); Dr. Benno Geiger, Venice; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 7-11 December 1920, lot 405; Henry Scipio Reitlinger, London (without his mark, L.2274a); his estate sale, Sotheby’s, London, 14 April 1954, lot 313 (unsold); sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10 November 1954, lot 34; Colnaghi, London (by 1954); Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift, inv. no. 1955.100
Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and watercolor over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchVerso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk, traces of graphite, on two joined sheets of off-white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on beige laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso covered with red chalk
18th centuryFrench?Black chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cotton/linen, framing lines in graphite
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk, black ink, gray wash, and touches of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrench