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 crayon and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted on pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: gray and brown wash over graphite
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and touches of white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk
18th centuryFrenchBrownish red chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchRed and brown chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchVernet: 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 centuryFrenchWatercolor, black ink, brown wash and white gouache on off-white (?) antique laid (?) paper, framing lines in black ink and black chalk, laid down
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on faded blue antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, partially covered with blue papers
18th centuryFrench