c. 1758
actual: 16.5 x 24.3 cm (6 1/2 x 9 9/16 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
Marble paper-covered boards and black leather spine; thirty pages of off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed, black, and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on four sheets of cream antique laid paper, with blue wove paper strips adhered to face
17th-18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, white gouache and black and white chalk with some stumping, on light brown antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and graphite on cream antique laid paper.
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on oiled antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchFolio album in brown quarter leather binding, brown marbled boards.
18th centuryFrench