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
Graphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, black chalk, gray wash, and touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and gray ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, extensively stumped, with white chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchChalk on paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash (unfiltered bistre) over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchGray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchGray ink and brown wash over graphite on cream modern paper, laid down to faded blue antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk counterproof on tan antique laid paper, lower left corner made up
18th centuryFrenchgraphite and brown wash on cream modern laid paper, laid down to blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on modern paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk with pastel on cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrench