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
Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk with touches of white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk counterproof on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk over counterproof (?) on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: graphite and watercolor
18th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on off-white antique laid paper, mounted on pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrenchParchment covered album with 96 bird studies executed in black ink and watercolor on 83 leaves of off-white antique laid paper (43 x 34.5 cm.). Some drawings have been pasted into the album, others were drawn directly on the album leaves.
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash, black ink framing line on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench?