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
Black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper, inlaid to decorative mount
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor, black ink and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, double framing line in brown ink and partial black chalk
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchRed chalk, with touches of black chalk, partially incised in contour at left side of face and in curls, on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and [later?] gray wash over graphite, partially incised, on cream antique-laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on beige antique laid paper with framing lines in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper, faded to gray-beige, partial framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, green transparent watercolor, and touches of white chalk on the sheet of an account book, framing line in black ink and partial framing line in brown ink at bottom
17th centuryDutch