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 chalk and red chalk wash over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk and graphite, incised; verso: reddened for transfer
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, adhered to off-white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBound folio volume, three-quarters green parchment binding, green marbled boards, rubbed at all edges, upper cover seperated at spine. Inscribed in black ink along spine: Dessins. The folios are off-white modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGray ink over graphite on white antique laid paper
18th-19th 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 and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, adhered to cream card
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor on white antique laid paper, border ruled in black ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines, incised; verso: rubbed with red-brown chalk
18th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBrown crayon on oiled beige antique laid tracing paper, mounted on cream antique laid paper with folio 5b
18th centuryFrench