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 on antique (?) laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black and brown ink and brown wash
18th centuryFrenchpen and black ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on white laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk, traces of graphite, on two joined sheets of off-white antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk on cream paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on pale gray modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown crayon and gray wash on oiled beige antique laid paper, mounted on beige modern laid paper (possibly same paper as album sheets)
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cotton/linen, framing lines in graphite
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite, brown ink, and brown wash with touches of white gouache on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, watercolor, graphite, and white gouache on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench