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
Black chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso covered with red chalk
18th centuryFrench?Graphite on off-white antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk with gray wash on tan antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
17th-18th centuryFrenchGraphite and gray-brown wash on off-white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk and graphite with guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash, heightened with white white gouache, on blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink with brown and red chalk wash over traces of red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
17th-18th centuryFrenchPastel
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper, extended on three sides on the upper left and right, framing lines in red chalk and brown ink
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared in black chalk (recto and verso)
17th-18th centuryFrenchBrown ink over black chalk on off-white paper
18th centuryFrench