c. 1510
34.8 x 24 cm (13 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
General Antoine-François Andréossy (according to Rodrigues sale catalogue). Antonio Barboza, Paris (L. 77, lower right). Eugène Rodrigues, Paris (L. 897, lower left), sold; [Muller, Amsterdam, 12-13 July 1921, lot 131, repr. pl. LII]; to Muller. Franz Koenigs, Haarlem; by descent to his heirs, sold; [Sotheby's, New York, 23 January 2001, lot 3, repr. p. 17], bought in and subsequently sold; to Vermeer Associates, Limited, Brampton, Ontario, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums; The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Mary and Michael Gellert, inv. no. 2004.85. NOTE: The sequence to Franz Koenigs directly from the auction at Muller's is not proven. The drawing may have bought in at that sale and then sold to Koenigs.
Brown ink and gray, rose, and yellow wash over black chalk, incised, on cream antique laid paper, inside framing line in black chalk at top, right and partially at bottom, outside framing line in brown ink at top, right and bottom; verso: long lines in brown ink and rubbed with black chalk
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink on parchment
16th-17th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
16th centuryNetherlandishBlack ink on cream antique laid paper, circular framing line partially in brown ink and partially in black chalk
16th centuryNetherlandishOpaque watercolor and shell gold over traces of black chalk on paper mounted overall to wood panel; framing lines in shell gold and dark red opaque watercolor
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, opaque watercolor, touches of black graphite, on paper prepared with wash (?)
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, brown and gray wash and white opaque watercolor on blue antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk and brown ink
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, black chalk and incidental or accidental green wash on cream antique laid paper; framing line in graphite and brown ink
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and brown wash over touches of black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brow nink; verso: black ink
16th centuryNetherlandish