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 ink, gray and brown wash, with touches of watercolor over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream card
18th centuryFrenchRed and brown chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on paper; verso: red and black chalk
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, laid down on Japan paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk, stumped, on buff antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchwatercolor, brown and gray wash over graphite on off-white modern laid paper, laid down to blue antique paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
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 centuryFrench