18th century
22.7 x 15.3 cm (8 15/16 x 6 in.)
[Christie's, New York, January 30, 1998, lot 248] sold; to Jean Massengale; [Sotheby's, London, July 4, 2007, lot 107, repr. (bought in)]; John Massengale, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2010
Pen with black and brown ink, gray wash, watercolor, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper strips adhered to face, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchMarble paper-covered boards and black leather spine; thirty pages of 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 centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk with traces of white chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink and black chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchWatercolor on cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on off-white wove paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brownish red chalk, red chalk wash, brown wash and graphite
18th centuryFrenchVerso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on pale gray modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on blue wove paper
18th centuryFrench