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 with touches of white chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchGray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: gray and brown wash over graphite
18th centuryFrenchBrown and gray wash, black chalk, and traces of red chalk heightened with gum arabic(?) on cream antique laid paper prepared with gum arabic, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue laid paper
18th centuryFrench?Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on two adhered sheets of cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream wove paper, foxed, laid down. In some areas the acidic ink has eaten into the paper; pin holes at the four corners.
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and black ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrench?