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
Red chalk and traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper, partially incised, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper
18th centuryFrenchPen with black ink and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th-18th centuryFrenchGouache on off-white antique-laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on oiled, thin wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, gouache and black ink, on colored (?) antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and red chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brownish red chalk, red chalk wash, brown wash and graphite
18th centuryFrenchBrownish red and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchVerso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGray wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in red ink, adhered to cream wove card border
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk, gray wash, black and brown ink, white gouache and black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench