- Titles The Wolf (La Fontaine) (Title)
- Artist Gustave Doré, French, 1832 - 1883
- Medium pencil on gray paper
- Dimensions sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 3/4 in. (29.5 × 22.2 cm) image (recto): 3 × 2 1/4 in. (7.6 × 5.7 cm) mat: 24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Otto Mosler Marx, 1954.63
- Work Type drawing
- Classification Drawings
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks Artist's studio stamp, lower right, in red ink: ATELIER / G vx Doré [inside oval]
- Inscription Recto, lower center, in pencil, erased: No. -[illeg.] / "The wolf ---- [illeg.] / ( [two words, illeg.] ) Bottom right, in pencil: 14 x 17 Verso, upper right, in pencil, oriented upside down: No. 83 Bottom right corner, in pencil: X
- Provenance Artist's estate [see note 1]; Henry Mosler; bequest to Mrs. Otto Mosler Marx; gift to Birmingham Museum of Art, 1954
1. Artist's estate stamp on recto, Lugt 681a