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 ink, gray wash, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray-brown wash over traces of graphite and white gouache on cream laid paper, framing line in brownish black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash, and watercolor on cream antique laid paper, adhered to a decorative paper edge
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed and white chalk, squared in red chalk, on toned cream antique laid paper, laid down on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on thin white wove paper.
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown and gray wash, black chalk, and traces of red chalk heightened with gum arabic(?) on cream antique laid paper prepared with gum arabic, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchModern wove paper printed in black ink, annotated in brown and black ink and graphite, attached to a sheet of antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor with touches of graphite on cream paper, framing lines in black and brown ink
18th-19th centuryFrench