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
Vernet: Brown in on off-white modern laid paper. The acidic ink has eated into the paper (17.7 cm x 11.3 cm). Pujol: Brown ink on white wove paper laid down to the sheet with the Vernet caricature (5 cm x 6.2 cm).
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and gray wash over black chalk on cream wove paper, laid down on off-white wove paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, laid down to cardboard
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted on cream laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown and black ink, brown and gray wash, black and red chalk, and off-white oil paint on cream antique laid paper, incised for transfer, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper (remnant of a register of names), adhered to a decorated mount
17th-18th centuryFrenchPastel over traces of black chalk on blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk
18th centuryFrench?Brown ink and gray wash over traces of black crayon on off-white laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrenchPen with black ink and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th-18th centuryFrench