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
Black chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, adhered to cream card
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on parchment laid down to white 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 chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to gray antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, with blue antique 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 centuryFrenchBlack ink and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper, laid down on tan laid paper, with blue antique laid paper borders adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrench