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
Graphite on parchment laid down to white laid paper.
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and black and red wash over graphite on oiled wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchGouache on off-white antique-laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on faded blue antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and touches of black ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchWatercolor, black ink, brown wash and white gouache on off-white (?) antique laid (?) paper, framing lines in black ink and black chalk, laid down
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash, black ink framing line on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench?Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on off-white card
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink over graphite on discolored white paper
18th centuryFrenchVerso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk 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 centuryFrench