1887-1888
30.7 x 23.4 cm (12 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.) framed: 57 x 47.5 cm (22 7/16 x 18 11/16 in.)
Émile Verhaeren, Brussels, by 1892 (d. 1916); M. and Mme Émile Laffon, Paris; their sale, Savoy Hotel, Zürich, April 8, 1938, no. 74 (bought in; CHF 141,000); acquired from Mme Laffon through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1939 (Fr 150,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Black crayon, gray wash, watercolor, and opaque white watercolor on off-white laid paper, mounted to board
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and black and red wash over graphite on oiled wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk
19th centuryFrenchBlack lithographic crayon, incised, on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, partially reworked in graphite, heavily applied, on tan wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite, black wash, and white chalk on tan paperboard
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on buff wove paper, darkened.
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on beige laid paper, laid down to off-white wove paper (platemark on secondary support)
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink over graphite on heavy tan wove paper
19th centuryFrench, BurgundianBlack crayon and graphite on beige wove paper
19th centuryFrench