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.
green, brown, gray, and blue watercolor over graphite on white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk counterproof on cream antique laid paper, mounted on a large sheet of cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchModern wove paper printed and annotated in black ink, attached to a sheet of modern wove paper, with old label from Johns Hopkins University attached to right edge.
18th centuryFrenchGray and black-ink wash and white opaque watercolor with traces of black chalk on blue laid paper, adhered to cream card
18th centuryFrenchPastel on discolored blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, laid down on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed and white chalk over traces of black chalk, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrench