The Cruel One Laughs at the Tears Which It Causes To Be Shed

Artists

Dimensions

actual: 24.5 x 32.3 cm (9 5/8 x 12 11/16 in.)

Provenance

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.