c. 1758
24.3 x 16.5 cm (9 9/16 x 6 1/2 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
Brown ink on three cut and rejoined sheets of cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on beige antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk
18th centuryFrenchWhite gouache over black gouache on light tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and brown and gray wash over graphite on cream laid paper laid down on tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchPen and black ink, with brush and gray and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream wove paper, framing lines in black ink and graphite
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on light tan wove paper, squared in black chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchred chalk (counterproof) on cream antique paper, adhered to blue cream antique laid paper strips
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, black chalk, and graphite with guidelines in graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench