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
Watercolor and graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised, framing lines in black chalk, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed ink tracing on oiled antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on blue wove paper, framing lines in graphite
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchPastel on tan laid paper with blue fibers, wrapped around and adhered to canvas
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared in black chalk (recto and verso)
17th-18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor on cream wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrench