The Contract

The present painting is based on a lost original that is given by Cuzin to 'Fragonard and Marguerite Gérard?' and which is known through several old copies and an engraving of 1792 by M. Blot (see J.-P. Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1987, Fribourg, pp. 333-34 and 343, no. 376 and D13).