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
Black ink with black, brown and dark gray wash, over black chalk, on off-white wove paper prepared with light gray wash
18th centuryFrenchColored chalks on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed, black and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised
17th-18th centuryFrenchWatercolor, gouache and black ink, on colored (?) antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and red chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon, graphite and white gouache on cream antique laid paper mounted to commercially prepared board
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk counterproof on cream laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor, white gouache, black ink, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, guidelines in graphite
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown chalk on cream laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack crayon and gray wash on off-white laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrench