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 chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk counterproof on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and touches of white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack, red and white chalk with touches of graphite on tan antique laid paper, laid down on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black and brown ink
18th centuryFrenchRed and brown chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchGouache and watercolor on cream wove paper adhered to light tan wove paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown ink wash, and red chalk wash over red chalk on antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrownish red chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th 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 centuryFrench