Study of heads. Mixed media on paper. Cm 28,50 x 19,80. Seal at the back, lower right: "A" (from the Alexandre Ananoff Collection: Lugt, 3365).Provenance: H. Walferdin; Drouot, Paris, April 12th-13th 1880, lot 245 (140 FF a Lacroix).M. Derenaucourt, Drouot, Paris, April 7th 1883, lot 37 (130 FF a Beaumont).Francois Flameng, Drouot, Paris, March 26th 1919, lot 109 (1.700 FF a Meyer).Camille Groult, Paris.Alexandre Ananoff, his stamp on the drawing (Lugt, ed. online 2010, n. 3365).Ian Woodner, New York.By inheritance to Diana and Andrea Woodner.Christie's, New York, Sale 7816, Old Master Drawings, New York Park Avenue, Property from the Collection of Dian Woodner and Andrea Woodner, January 11th 1994, lot 316 (5.175 USD).Pierre Pfeiffer, London.Private Collection.Exhibitions: Monaco of Bavaria, Bernheimer, The Pfeiffer Collection of Old Master Drawings, 1990, pp. 66-67.Publications: Baron R. de Portalis, Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris 1889, p. 300 (catalogato tra i “principali disegni di Fragonard”) A. Ananoff, L’Oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806): catalogue raisonné, Paris 1961-1970, 4 vol., vol. 1, n. 149, p. 86, figura 65, n. 149 (catalogato e illustrato)J.P. Cuzin, Fragonard. Musée du Louvre. Cabinet des dessins, Paris 2003, catalogo n. 13, p. 71 (disegno citato)Page on the website of the Louvre Museum, Cabinet des dessins, Fonds des dessins et miniatures, inv. n. 26649 recto, last update 2012 (cited drawing).The artwork is accompanied by an export licence.