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
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