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 off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutchOpaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, mounted at four corners
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink, transparent watercolor, and gray wash over graphite on antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on paper mounted on parchment page
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, some contours incised, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, mounted on old lining
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash with white opaque watercolor on brown toned paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink and black chalk
17th-18th centuryDutchGray and brown wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchRed chalk, with touches of black chalk, partially incised in contour at left side of face and in curls, on parchment
17th centuryDutch