The First Steps

Artists

Dimensions

44.5 x 55.3 cm (17 1/2 x 21 3/4 in.) frame: 64.5 x 74.5 cm (25 3/8 x 29 5/16 in.)

Provenance

O…sale [through Hotel de Commissaires Priseurs, Paris, December 16-17, 1839, lot 89, with pendant, The Beloved Child]. Roger Charles Gaultier De Rigny, [sale, through Hotel de Commissaires Priseurs, Paris, June 2, 1857, lot 40]; to Morens. Pillot sale [through Hotel des Ventes Mobilières, Paris, December 6-8, 1859, lot 43, listed as “Figures by Mlle. Gérard, landscape by Fragonard"]. E. Falcke, sold; to Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, England, 1868, by descent; to Hannah de Rothschild, 1874, by descent; to the Lord Rosebery Collection. [Wildenstein & Co., New York], sold; to Charles E. Dunlap, St. Louis, 1952, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1961.