c. 1640-1641
This sheet forms part of a seventeenth-century Dutch album, in its original binding, which contains 41 small, full-page drawings on parchment by more than 27 different artists.
11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 in.)
Possibly Pieter Spiering, Delft and The Hague. Private collection, United Kingdom, sold [private sale, via Sotheby's, London]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1987 (Lugt 3306, without their mark), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 1999
Brown ink over black chalk, squared in black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack ink and gray wash over red chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared in red chalk, framing line in black ink and red chalk, mounted at all corners
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, mounted
17th centuryDutchWatercolor on cream antique laid paper, the figure trimmed at all edges and mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchGraphite and black chalk, partially incised, on white antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and black wash on blue antique laid paper, with a framing line in black ink over black chalk
17th centuryDutch