c. 1767
44.5 × 36.7 cm (17 1/2 × 14 7/16 in.)
The artist’s estate; his daughter, Caroline Greuze, Paris, by descent; her estate sale, Commendeur, Paris, 25-26 January 1843, lot 29; Jean-Baptiste Delbecq, Ghent; his estate sale, Jacquin, Paris, 20 January 1845 and the following days, lot 104; Émile Straus, Paris (by 1886); his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit (Lair-Dubreuil), Paris, 3-4 June 1929, lot 72; Martin Birnbaum, New York, sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge (by 1929), bequest; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs, inv. no. 1965.290
Black chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, laid down on Japan paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink, gray wash, watercolor and touches of white gouache, over traces of graphite, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and brown ink
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, watercolor, and white gouache over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper prepared with white gouache, adhered to canvas
17th-18th centuryFrench, LorraineseWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWhite gouache over black gouache on light tan 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 centuryFrench