Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Martial François Marcille (1790-1856), Paris;

His estate sale, Paris, Pillet and Febvre, 12 January 1857, lot 56;

Where acquired by "Febvre" for 176 francs;

F. Bohler;

His sale ("Collection de M. F. Bohler"), Paris, Chevallier and Mannheim, 11 April 1888, lot 135, for 1,130 francs;

Camille Groult (1837-1908), by 1889;

From whom acquired by Wildenstein, New York, 1953;

From whom acquired by André Meyer (1898-1979), Paris and New York, 1954;

Thence by inheritance to his daughter, Francine Meyer (1932-2001), New York;

Thence acquired by the present collector, circa 2001.

R. Portalis, Honoré Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris 1889, p. 291;

G. Wildenstein, The Paintings of Fragonard, New York 1960, pp. 244-245, cat. no. 208, reproduced pl. 23;

G. Mandel and D. Wildenstein, L'opera completa di Fragonard, Milan 1972, p. 95, cat. no. 219, reproduced;

J.P. Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard: Vie et oeuvre, Catalogue complet des peintures, Fribourg 1987, pp. 131, 291, cat. no. 168, reproduced fig.160;

P. Rosenberg, Fragonard, exhibition catalogue, New York 1988, p. 203, reproduced fig. 4;

M. Ursino, in De Chirico, nel centenario della nascita, exhibition catalogue, Milan/Rome 1988, p. 218, under cat. no. 93, reproduced;

P. Rosenberg, Tout l'œuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris 1989, pp. 91-21, cat. no. 189, reproduced;

J.P. Cuzin and D. Salmon, Fragonard: regards croisés, Paris 2007, pp. 169-170, reproduced fig. 266;

M. Ursino, De Chirico e il museo, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2008, p. 89.