1793
actual: 24.5 x 32.3 cm (9 5/8 x 12 11/16 in.)
Jean-Baptiste Martial Poulain; his sale, G. J. Constantin, Paris, December 19, 1803, no. 145 (as "Le cruel rit des pleurs qu'il fait verser; dessin précieux, à la pierre noire"; Fr 281); Barthélemy Roger; his sale, Mannheim, Paris, December 23-28, 1841, no. 139 (Fr 360); Constantini, by 1874 at least until 1879; anonymous sale (Constantini's, according to Guiffrey 1924, no. 19), Hôtel Drouot, Paris, room 3, April 15, 1882, no. 71 (as "L'Amour vainqueur"); purchased at that sale by Mme Poiret (Fr 1,000); Robert Hoe; his sale, American Art Association, New York, February 15-March 3, 1911, no. 3228; Richard Ederheimer Print Cabinet, New York, December 1913; anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 1, 1914, no. 89 (Fr. 1,000); Lilly Lawlor, Paris, 1927, acquired from her through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, July 1927 ($2,700), his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Red chalk, graphite, watercolor and gouache on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk 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 centuryFrenchRed, brown, and pink chalk, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and graphite with guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper with folio 6b
18th centuryFrenchGraphite, stumped, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash and black chalk, with traces of red chalk, on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th 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, LorraineseRed chalk counterproof on cream antique laid paper, mounted on a large sheet of cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench