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 white chalk, and black ink, with touches of white gouache, on blue antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk, squared in black chalk
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and red-chalk wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in red chalk and brown ink, partially incised, laid down on cream antique laid paper, with blue laid paper strips adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchRed and white chalk on light brown antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on thin white wove paper.
18th-19th centuryFrenchWhite gouache over black gouache on light tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack crayon and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted on cream laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchRed and white chalk on cream antique laid paper laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrench