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
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down
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18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and red-chalk wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in red chalk and brown ink, partially incised, laid down on cream antique laid paper, with blue laid paper strips adhered to face
18th 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, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in black ink
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17th-18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown and gray-brown wash on cream modern laid paper; verso: black chalk and black ink
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
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18th centuryFrenchBrown chalk on cream laid paper
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17th-18th centuryFrench, Lorrainese