A Monk with a Staff Walking in a Landscape
17th century
Artists
Description
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.
Dimensions
11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 in.)
Provenance
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
Related Artworks
View MoreOpaque watercolor and graphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, charcoal, and gray wash on blue antique laid paper, autograph framing line in charcoal; verso: test strokes in white chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, black ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper, prepared with brown wash
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lilne in black ink, mounted overall to wove paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, white opaque watercolor and touches of red and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutch