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
Watercolor, black and red chalk, and white gouache on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black and brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
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 centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on greenish wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white wove paper, framing lines in black chalk and brown ink
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink, and graphite
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, with blue wove paper borders adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tan antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench