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
Red and black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk, traces of graphite, on two joined sheets of off-white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite and turquoise wash, incised with a stylus on tracing paper, backed.
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache over graphite on off-white laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black and brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray-brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper, partial framing lines in black ink, laid down on cream card
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to wove card, framing lines in graphite
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown and gray wash with traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, with cream antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack crayon and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted on pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, with blue wove paper borders adhered to face
18th centuryFrench