Bound for Versailles: The Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection

Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755)

The Monkey and the Cat, 1732
Black ink and gray wash, with white opaque watercolor, on blue paper

The English Fox, 1733
Black ink and gray wash, with white opaque watercolor, on blue paper

The Fortune Tellers, 1733
Black ink and gray wash, with white opaque watercolor, on blue paper

Purchased on the Fellows Fund; 1976.6–8

The Man Who Runs After Fortune and the Man Who Waits in His Bed, 1731
Black ink and gray wash, with white opaque watercolor, on blue paper
Gift of Charles Ryskamp

François Boucher (1703–1770)
Design for frontispiece to “Tombeau du comte Sidney Godolphin,” ca. 1735–36
Pen and black ink, and gray and brown wash, heightened with white chalk, over black chalk
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman in honor of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard; 1985.68

Charles Le Brun (1619–1690)
A Caryatid, ca. 1641–42
Black chalk on paper; incised for transfer
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman; 1987.6