c. 1758
actual: 16.5 x 24.3 cm (6 1/2 x 9 9/16 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
Brown ink, brown wash, watercolor, and white gouache over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper prepared with white gouache, adhered to canvas
17th-18th centuryFrench, LorraineseBlack and white chalk with gray wash on tan antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk, stumped, on brown antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, partially incised; verso: rubbed with red chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash on blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brownish red chalk, red chalk wash, brown wash and graphite
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black chalk
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk counterproof on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash and white gouache over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrench