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 cream antique laid paper, framing lines, incised; verso: rubbed with red-brown chalk
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, adhered to a decorated mount, extended at top
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, watercolor, graphite, and white gouache on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue paper faded to tan
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink, and gray and brown wash over black chalk, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on greenish wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench