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 ink and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper, laid down on tan laid paper, with blue antique laid paper borders adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash over black chalk on white laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on oiled antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on oiled beige antique laid paper, mounted on cream antique laid paper with folio 5a
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue paper faded to tan
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray-brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and black chalk, blue paper borders adhered to face, laid down on a decorated mount with remnant of a ledger from 1713 on the verso
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white modern 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 centuryFrench