c. 1759-1761
cover: 18 x 25 cm (7 1/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, by descent?; to his heirs. Georges Huot, his great-grandson, sold; to George S. Hellman, New York, sold [through Kende Galleries, New York, April 10, 1952, lot 75]. Ira Spanierman. Martin Reymert and Gerald Norman, New York and London, sold; to Fogg Art Musuem, 1968
Graphite on cream antique laid 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 centuryFrenchBrown wash and black chalk, with traces of red chalk, on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to gray antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on blue wove paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to tan 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 centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on cream modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on oiled beige antique laid paper, mounted on beige modern laid paper (possibly same paper as album sheets)
18th centuryFrenchRed, black, and white chalk on toned cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench