c. 1758
actual: 16.5 x 24.3 cm (6 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, by descent to heirs?; Georges Huot, great-grandson of the artist, 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 Museum, 1968.
Black and white chalk on blue-gray antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGreen leather-covered sketchbook
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on off-white card
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk with traces of graphite on tan antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, adhered to tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk, stumped, on buff antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench