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
Black and white chalk drawing mounted within a book on Prud'hon
18th-19th 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 centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, with blue antique laid paper strips adhered to face, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBrown crayon and gray wash on oiled beige antique laid paper, mounted on beige modern laid paper (possibly same paper as album sheets)
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink with touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream wove paper, foxed, laid down. In some areas the acidic ink has eaten into the paper; pin holes at the four corners.
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown chalk on cream laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on pale gray modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrench