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
Graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash over graphite on white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: watercolor and black chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchgraphite and brown wash on cream modern laid paper, laid down to blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: red chalk and graphite
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to gray antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: red chalk and graphite
17th-18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray wash over traces of black crayon on off-white laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink with brown and red chalk wash over traces of red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
17th-18th centuryFrench