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
Red chalk and graphite with touches of white gouache, and guidelines in graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and brown and gray wash over graphite on cream laid paper laid down on tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted on beige modern laid paper with folio 12b (possibly same paper as album sheets)
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18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on toned (?) cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
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18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed ink tracing on oiled antique laid paper
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18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench