Delacques-Lemonnier, Paris
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, New York, March 22, 1984, lot 75
with Gallery Janet
P. Rosenberg, in the exhibition catalogue, Fragonard, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987-8, fig. 2, p. 164, identified erroneously as the copy after Fragonard once in the collection of J. M. Jules Strauss which was offered for sale in Paris on March 7, 1961 as lot 15.
Liège, Grande Saison Internationale de l'Eau /Retrospective d'art, 1939, pp. 42-3, no. 70 as by Fragonard
Specialist note
Based on the painting in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, No. 101, executed between 1765 and 1772
