17th century
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.
15.2 × 11 cm (6 × 4 5/16 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 on cream antique laid paper, mounted to blue paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, and transparent and opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown and gray wash, graphite and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, incised; verso: gray wash and trial strokes in black ink
17th centuryDutchWatercolor on cream antique laid paper, the figure trimmed at all edges and mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and later brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on parchment, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray and brown wash, and transparent watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutch