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 with touches of red chalk and traces of white chalk, squared in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, decorated with dark blue antique laid paper borders adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchGreen leather-covered sketchbook
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: graphite and black chalk
18th centuryFrenchGray ink over graphite on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: gray and brown wash over graphite
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk, gray wash, black and brown ink, white gouache and black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache on cream antique laid paper, with framing line in black ink, laid down on cream 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 centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, adhered on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrench