c. 1758
24.3 x 16.5 cm (9 9/16 x 6 1/2 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 and white chalk with traces of graphite on tan antique laid paper; verso: darkened
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18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
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18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
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18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on toned (?) cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
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18th centuryFrenchBrown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: graphite
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