c. 1715
20 x 20 cm (7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Sale, Paris, Drouot, 13 December 1963, lot 33 (as Caspar Netscher); Geneviève Aymonier-Ferault, Paris (in 1964); sale, Versailles, Palais des Congrès, 28-29 May 1969, lot 158; Galerie Cailleux, Paris (their mark, not in Lugt); sale, London, Christie's, 4 July 1995 (as Jean-Baptiste Oudry), sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, inv. no. D-F-213, gift; to Harvard University Art Museum, inv. no. 1999.18
Graphite on white paper
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