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 and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash with watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brownish red chalk, red chalk wash, brown wash and graphite
18th centuryFrenchGraphite
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines, incised; verso: rubbed with red-brown chalk
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper strips adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchRed and white chalk over traces of black chalk, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash, heightened with white white gouache, on blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchVerso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed and brown chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper adhered to face
18th centuryFrench