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
Marble paper-covered boards and black leather spine; thirty pages of off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray-brown wash over traces of graphite and white gouache on cream laid paper, framing line in brownish black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk and graphite with guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash over traces of black crayon on off-white laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper with folio 6a
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite and gray-brown wash on off-white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on oiled antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink over graphite on discolored white paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench