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
Gouache on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack, red and white chalk on beige antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink over red chalk on off-white antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchGray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache over graphite on off-white laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite and brown wash on white wove paper.
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, black chalk, gray wash, and touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and gray ink
18th centuryFrench