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 chalk on off-white antique laid paper adhered to gray antique laid paper
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 centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk counterproof on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and graphite on cream antique laid paper.
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, gray wash, white gouache on tan paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper attached to a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in gray and brown ink
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk, graphite, watercolor and gouache on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue-gray antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th-18th centuryFrench