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 crayon on oiled beige antique laid paper, mounted on cream antique laid paper with folio 5a
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on thin white wove paper.
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk, gray wash, black and brown ink, white gouache and black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and black and gray wash, probably over graphite, framing lines in black ink, on off-white antique laid paper (laid down)
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink with touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th 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 centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench