Jean Honore Fragonard

Provenance

Hippolyte Walferdin
his sale, Paris, 12-16 April 1880, nr. 38 (sold for FF 430)
M. Deglise, by 1889
Camille Groult
his sale, Paris, 21 March 1962, nr. 77
with M. Knoedler and Co., New York, where purchased by
Mrs Lucy Smith Battson, 1962
sale Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 1996, nr. 104
private collection, USA
sale Bonhams, London, 3 December 2014, nr. 85

Other works by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The Progress of Love: Love the Sentinel
1790-91

Sappho inspired by Cupid

The Love Letter
early 1770s

The Two Sisters
c. 1769-70

Roman Interior
c. 1760