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
Red chalk, extensively stumped, and white chalk on tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to 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 centuryFrenchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor over graphite on cream wove paper, framing line in graphite
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to gray antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tan antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: graphite and watercolor
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash and black chalk, with traces of red chalk, on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench