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.
Black ink and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed and brown chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray wash over black crayon on cream laid paper, mounted on cream laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on gray laid paper, laid down on off-white laid paper with blue laid paper strips adhered to face, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and white gouache over black chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on card and off-white paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchGouache and watercolor on cream wove paper adhered to light tan wove paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk with traces of graphite, and guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack crayon on off-white antique laid paper, mounted on pale green laid paper
18th centuryFrench