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
watercolor, brown and gray wash over graphite on off-white modern laid paper, laid down to blue antique paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGray ink, gray and brown wash on white laid paper, laid down to blue antique paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray wash over traces of black crayon on off-white laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on light green antique laid paper; verso: reddened
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, watercolor, graphite, and white gouache on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, black ink, brown wash, white gouache, watercolor, and traces of graphite on toned cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on faded blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on oiled antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk counterproof on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench