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 chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGray and tan wash over graphite on greenish antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on off-white card
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink, brown wash, and red chalk
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, partially incised; verso: rubbed with red chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, partially incised, adhered to a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk, and watercolor on cream antique laid paper, laid down, framing lines in black ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on tan antique laid card
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, black chalk, and graphite with guidelines in graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench