c. 1862
25.2 x 17.5 cm (9 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
Edouard Manet , gift; to Zacharie Astruc. Mlle Dieterle. [Jacques Seligmann & Co., Paris (by 1934-1936); sold, December 1, 1936]; to Martin Birnbaum for Grenville L. Winthrop (1936-1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Notes: 1. The drawing is listed as number 5672 in the Jacques Seligmann & Co. stock catalogue from 1934-1935 (Jacques Seligmann & Co. archives, Archives of American Art online). The drawing may have been at Seligmann’s before 1934; it was sold in 1936 (see note 2). 2. In correspondence with Paul Sachs dated December 1, 1936, Martin Birnbaum reports that he has just purchased this drawing for Mr. Winthrop (object file, Harvard Art Museums).
Black ink and gray wash over black chalk on white laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchPrepared black chalk on off-white modern laid paper; verso: prepared black chalk
19th centuryFrenchPhotomechanical reproduction
19th-20th centuryFrenchGraphite (?) on off-white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, brown ink, gouache, and gold over graphite on cream wove paper, laid down
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and watercolor on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite over traces of red chalk on beige antique laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on pale gray modern laid paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and dark tan wash over the face on off-white wove paper, laid down
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