c. 1758
24.3 x 16.5 cm (9 9/16 x 6 1/2 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 gouache on cream antique laid paper, with framing line in black ink, laid down on cream laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, partially incised; verso: rubbed with red chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines, incised; verso: rubbed with red-brown chalk
18th centuryFrenchBlack, red and white chalk on beige antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk on cream antique laid paper.
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk counterproof reworked with brown chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream wove paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on oiled antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk counterproof on tan antique laid paper, lower left corner made up
18th centuryFrench