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 with traces of white chalk; verso: black chalk with traces of graphite on light-tan 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 centuryFrenchBlack, red, and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and graphite with guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, on discolored blue paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, brown, black, and gray wash, with white and colored gouache, over black chalk and brown ink, squared in black chalk, on light tan antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th-18th centuryFrenchBrown ink with touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrench