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, brown wash, and watercolor over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper borders adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchPen with black and brown ink, gray wash, watercolor, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper strips adhered to face, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash and black chalk, with traces of red chalk, 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 centuryFrenchRed chalk, graphite, watercolor and gouache on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk, gray wash, black and brown ink, white gouache and black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchpen and black ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on white laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrench