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.
Watercolor on white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchPastel over traces of black chalk on blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchVerso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, watercolor, and white gouache over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchGray wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in red ink, adhered to cream wove card border
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink and black chalk with gray wash and white gouache on toned cream antique laid paper laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchColored chalks on faded blue antique laid paper, laid down on blue wove paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, heightened with white, on discolored blue antique-laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, extensively stumped, with white chalk on off-white 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 centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash, and watercolor on cream antique laid paper, adhered to a decorative paper edge
18th centuryFrench