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
Black and brown ink, gray wash, watercolor and touches of white gouache, over traces of graphite, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, black ink and watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrush and pale and dark gray wash over black chalk on white laid paper. Verso: brush and brown and pale and dark gray wash over black chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink with gray-brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, brown ink, and graphite
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and brown wash with traces of white chalk on toned cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink, laid down on light tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGouache on parchment
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash with watercolor over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th-19th centuryFrench