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 chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGouache on off-white laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and white gouache over black chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on card and off-white paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown and black ink, gray and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
18th centuryFrenchBrown and gray wash over graphite on toned cream antique laid paper, laid down on a tan card, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on off-white card
18th centuryFrenchVernet: Brown in on off-white modern laid paper. The acidic ink has eated into the paper (17.7 cm x 11.3 cm). Pujol: Brown ink on white wove paper laid down to the sheet with the Vernet caricature (5 cm x 6.2 cm).
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown wash (unfiltered bistre) over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and white gouache over black chalk on tan antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black and brown ink, laid down
18th centuryFrench