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 on cream paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink and gray wash with watercolour over graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench?Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, adhered to a decorated mount, extended at top
18th centuryFrenchRed and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black chalk and black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and white gouache over black chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on card and off-white paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchGray ink and brown wash over graphite on cream modern laid paper, laid down to faded blue antique laid paper.
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk with touches of white chalk on faded antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, laid down on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench