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 and white chalk, and black ink, with touches of white gouache, on blue antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk, squared in black chalk
17th-18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGray and tan wash over graphite on greenish antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray wash over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black crayon.
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash on cream 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 centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: red chalk and graphite
18th centuryFrench