'L'amour frivole': A young man leaning through a window to lift the fichu of a sleeping girl

The drawing is connected to the painting of the same subject and composition, today in the Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris (Burollet, op. cit.), which was engraved by Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (1731-1797). The painting and the present work were long thought to be by François Boucher (1703-1770) owing to the inscription on the print which stated his invention, but in the 19th Century it was attributed to his son-in-law Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (1723-1769). A note on the verso of the mount of the present drawing records that Pierre Decourcelle, who owned the drawing, showed it to Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896), who re-attributed the composition to Lavreince.