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
Brown 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
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18th centuryFrenchBrown ink over black chalk on off-white paper
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18th centuryFrenchBlack crayon and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted on cream laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk
18th centuryFrench