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 on parchment
16th-17th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and brown wash on wood
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and gray, yellow and rose wash over black chalk, incised, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted on an album leaf; verso: outlines of recto are traced through in black chalk, incised
16th centuryNetherlandishOpaque and transparent watercolor over traces of black chalk on antique laid paper mounted overall to wood panel, traces of framing lines in shell gold and dark red opaque watercolor
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, incised
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, brown and gray wash and white opaque watercolor over touches of black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk at right and bottom edges, on remnants of mount
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
15th-16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor on brown prepared paper, framing line in brown ink
15th-16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, gray wash, and trace of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and black chalk, vertical [ruled?] line in graphite
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: brown ink
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown 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 centuryNetherlandish