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
Modern wove paper printed in black ink, annotated in brown and black ink and graphite, attached to a sheet of antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchFabricated red chalk on white antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink with brown and red chalk wash over traces of red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on beige laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGray ink and gray wash over black chalk on off-white laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper with folio 3a
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk with touches of white chalk on faded antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, black ink and watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and watercolor over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink, and brown wash over graphite, with touches of white gouache, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrench