Provenance Michel Heine, Paris (in 1888); J. Pierpont Morgan, London (by 1907–d. 1913; cat., vol. 3, 1907, no. 538H, as by Jean Honoré Fragonard); his son, J. P. Morgan, New York (1913–35; his sale, Christie's, London, June 24, 1935, no. 519, as by Jean Honoré Fragonard, to Spink); [Spink, London, from 1935]; [Alfred Joseph, London, until 1960; sold to MMA]
Exhibition History Paris. École des Beaux-Arts. "L'art français sous Louis XIV et sous Louis XV," 1888, no. 251.
Paris. Galerie Georges Petit. "Exposition Chardin et Fragonard," June–July 1907, nos. 227–35.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 5, 1996–January 5, 1997, no. 44.
References Baron Roger Portalis. Honoré Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre . Paris, 1889, p. 317, ill. opp. p. 136.Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, the Property of J. Pierpont Morgan . 3, [deluxe edition]. London, 1907, p. 168, no. 538H, pl. CLXXX, no. 2.L'oeuvre de J.-B.-S. Chardin et de J.-H. Fragonard . Paris, [1908], p. XXI, no. 193, ill.The Miniature in Europe in the 16th, 17th, 18, and 19th Centuries . Graz, Austria, 1964, vol. 1, p. 266.in L'opera completa di Fragonard . Milan, 1972, p. 112, no. 576, ill.European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1996, pp. 12–13, 90–91, no. 44, colorpl. 44 and ill. p. 90.Revue de l'art no. 111 (1996), pp. 70–71, fig. 32.Letter . January 4, 1996.Letter to Katharine Baetjer . May 22, 1997.
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