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
Graphite
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and brown ink, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and black and brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on toned (?) cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack crayon and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted on cream laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk, and touches of white gouache on toned cream antique laid paper laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink on antique (?) laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black and brown ink and brown wash
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, stumped, with touches of white chalk on cream antique laid paper toned to light tan, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrench