Possibly Plantade de Saint-Germain;
Possibly Anonymous sale, Paris, 2 March 1839, lot 1 (as Boucher);
With Wildenstein, Paris, 1933-34;
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Herbert Boone, Baltimore;
By whose estate sold, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 1989, lot 203 (as "Circle of Jean-Honoré Fragonard").

J. Ingamells, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures, vol. III, London 1989, p. 169;
P. Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris 1989, p. 70, under cat. no. 2.

The picture has an old relining. Overall the painting is in very good condition with fresh bright coloring and a very few retouches. Some thinness is visible in parts of the yellow drapery and the canvas weave is visible in those areas. Under UV only a couple very tiny retouches are visible, such as in the upper left corner. Could be hung in its current state. In a carved gilt wood frame.
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Another version of this pastoral scene, dating to circa 1754 - 1755, can be found in the Wallace Collection, London (inv. no. P471).