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
Brown ink, watercolor, and white gouache over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk over traces of graphite, with guidelines in graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
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18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk and red chalk wash over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk and graphite, incised; verso: reddened for transfer
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrench
Black ink and gray wash, with touches of brown wash, over traces of graphite and black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper, with partial framing lines in graphite and brown ink
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown wash over black chalk and graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on tan antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper borders adhered to face
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrench