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 and charcoal on off-white wove paper, mounted to light tan laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink, gray wash, watercolor and touches of white gouache, over traces of graphite, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted on beige modern laid paper with folio 12b (possibly same paper as album sheets)
18th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on oiled beige antique laid paper, mounted on beige modern laid paper (possibly same paper as album sheets)
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on two adhered sheets of cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk, stumped, on brown antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack crayon and gray wash on off-white laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchgreen, brown, gray, and blue watercolor over graphite on white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench