c. 1758
24.3 x 16.5 cm (9 9/16 x 6 1/2 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
Watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper, framing line in graphite
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown and gray-brown wash on cream modern laid paper; verso: black chalk and black ink
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchWatercolor, gouache and black ink, on colored (?) antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and red chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on blue wove paper, framing lines in graphite
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash, and white gouache on lightly faded blue antique laid paper, laid down on off-white wove paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and yellow wash, adhered to blue wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream paper, laid down
18th-19th centuryFrenchPastel on paper, wrapped around and adhered to canvas
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and brown ink, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and black and brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink, gray wash, and watercolor with touches of white gouache over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
18th centuryFrench