18th century
64.8 x 57.8 cm (25 1/2 x 22 3/4 in.)
From catalogue card: Collection: Marquis de Girardin
Red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchGraphite and brown wash on white wove paper.
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown crayon on oiled beige antique laid paper, mounted on beige modern laid paper (possibly same paper as album page)
18th centuryFrenchRed, black, and white chalk on light-tan antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and brown ink, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and black and brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and white gouache over red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream 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 off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream wove paper, foxed, laid down. In some areas the acidic ink has eaten into the paper; pin holes at the four corners.
18th-19th centuryFrench