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, black ink, brown wash and white gouache on off-white (?) antique laid (?) paper, framing lines in black ink and black chalk, laid down
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk
18th centuryFrench?Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper strips adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over graphite on antique laid paper toned with blue wash
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk drawing mounted within a book on Prud'hon
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash, and watercolor over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper borders adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchRed and white chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
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 centuryFrench