c. 1758
actual: 16.5 x 24.3 cm (6 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, by descent?; to his heirs. Georges Huot, his great-grandson, sold; to George S. Hellman, New York, sold [through Kende Galleries, New York, April 10, 1952, lot 75]. Ira Spanierman. Martin Reymert and Gerald Norman, New York and London, sold; to Fogg Art Musuem, 1968
Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor over graphite on cream wove paper, framing line in graphite
18th-19th 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 centuryFrenchBlack crayon counterproof on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, black chalk, and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a decorative mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, adhered to a decorated mount, extended at top
18th centuryFrenchTwo tones of red chalk heightened with white chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in red chalk
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk counterproof reworked with brown chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream wove paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, brown wash, and watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cotton/linen, framing lines in graphite
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and red chalk wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised, framing lines in black chalk, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrench