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
Black and white chalk on blue laid paper
18th centuryFrench?Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
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 centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchGraphite, pen and brown ink, watercolor and gouache, heightened with white, on paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk, and black ink, with touches of white gouache, on blue antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk, squared in black chalk
17th-18th centuryFrenchVerso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and brown wash on off-white paper, adhered to a decorated mount, hinged to blue card
18th centuryFrench