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
Black ink and gray-brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and black chalk, blue paper borders adhered to face, laid down on a decorated mount with remnant of a ledger from 1713 on the verso
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18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
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17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
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18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown and gray wash with traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, with cream antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, partially incised, adhered to a decorated mount
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18th centuryFrench