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
Black and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and black ink
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper; verso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack, red, and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper, partially incised, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchVerso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown and gray ink and brown and gray wash with black ink and graphite on off-white antique laid paper, mounted
18th centuryFrenchBrown wash (unfiltered bistre) over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, extensively stumped, with white chalk on off-white antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrench