19th century
61 x 39 cm (24 x 15 3/8 in.)
Gustave Doré, (L.681a); his sale, Paris, 1885, possibly lot 134; private collection, France; Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (as of 1996), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, inv. no. 2006.319
Black crayon over graphite, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on brown wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white wove paper
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 ink and graphite on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown wash and black ink on buff wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack, red and white chalk on blue wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and graphite on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchCharcoal on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, gouache, and white chalk on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrench