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
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on brown card
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, partially incised; verso: rubbed with red chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on light tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on toned (?) cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on three cut and rejoined sheets of cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black and brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchGray ink, gray and brown wash on white laid paper, laid down to blue antique paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper strips adhered to face, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrench