1805-1824
Bound quarto volume, three-quarters green parchment binding, green marbled boards.
21.8 x 17.1 cm (8 9/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
David sale, A.N. Pérignon, Paris, April 17, 1826, and following days, no. 75 or 79; Mme la duchesse de Bassano; Mlle de Bassano, Paris; acquired from her through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, November 1937 ($66,000 for cat nos. 19 and 20); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Charcoal and white chalk on blue wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream laid paper
19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite on greenish-gray wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash and black chalk
19th centuryFrenchBound folio volume, three-quarters green parchment binding, green marbled boards, rubbed at all edges, upper cover seperated at spine. Inscribed in black ink along spine: Dessins. The folios are off-white modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink with brown wash, on cream wove paper, framing lines in black and red ink
19th centuryFrenchRed and white chalk on cream antique laid paper
19th-20th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and black and gray wash, probably over graphite, framing lines in black ink, on off-white antique laid paper (laid down)
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon over graphite, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
19th centuryFrench