Provenance

(Probably) M..., Hôtel de Bullion, Paris, 9-10 January 1818, nr. 16 (without indication of either size or support)
(probably) Simonet collection, Paris
sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7-8 May 1863, nr. 34 (without indication of either size or support)
Gustave Rothan (1822-1890), Paris, by 1883
sale Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 30 May 1890, nr. 148 (12,000 FF to Reuter or Rutter)
Albert Lehmann (1840-1922), Paris, by 1897
sale Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 8 June 1925, nr. 201, citing Portalis (loc. cit.) who erroneously listed the present painting as two separate works
Mrs. Edward Esmond, Paris, by 1934
private collection, France
with Galerie Brame and Lorenceau, Paris, where acquired in 2006 by the present owner
sale, Property from the Estate of Eugene V. Thaw, Christie's, New York, 30 October 2018, nr. 234

Other works by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The Progress of Love: Love the Avenger
1790-91

Mercury and Argus after Carel Fabritius
1760s

Study for the Pursuit Panel
1717

A Kiss Won

Old man with white hair
c. 1769