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
Graphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchVerso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper (recto and verso)
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on light tan antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash, and white gouache on lightly faded blue antique laid paper, laid down on off-white wove paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, with blue antique laid paper strips adhered to face, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid card, framing lines in black ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed and white chalk over traces of black chalk, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink and gray wash, over red chalk, on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGouache on off-white laid paper
18th centuryFrench