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
Graphite on white paper
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17th-18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray wash, incised, on blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite, stumped, on tan antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, gray wash, and watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream paper
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