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 and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk, and watercolor on cream antique laid paper, laid down, framing lines in black ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, watercolor, and white gouache over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchGraphite, touches of red and white chalk, tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite, brown ink, and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash, watercolor and white gouache over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on off-white laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, adhered to cream card
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and black-chalk sauce, heightened with white chalk, on cream wove paper, prepared with blue ground
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on oiled beige antique laid paper, mounted on cream antique laid paper with folio 5a
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink with black, brown and dark gray wash, over black chalk, on off-white wove paper prepared with light gray wash
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash over black crayon on cream antique laid paper, mounted on beige modern laid paper with folio 12a (possibly same paper as album sheets)
18th centuryFrench