With inscription on the old mount, Par h. fragonard.

Red chalk counterproof, retouched with pen and brown ink, brush and grey-brown wash

13 ⅝ x 17 ⅜ inches

347 x 440 mm

Provenance

Françoise Renaud (Lugt 1042), his mountmaker’s blind-stamp

An unidentified eighteenth-century paraphe, lower right

Baron de Vaux

Mrs. William H. Crocker, New York

Exhibitions

Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Master Drawings, 1935, cat. no. 85, illustrated

Oakland, Mills College Art Gallery, Old Master Drawings, 1937, cat. no. 21, illustrated

Portland, Portland Museum of Art, Old Master Drawings, 1938, cat. no. 21, illustrated

Literature

A. Ananoff, L’Oeuvre dessiné de Fragonard, Paris, 1970, vol. IV, cat. no. 2148, fig. 578

PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK