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.
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 and brown and blue wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor, gouache, and brown ink on cream paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash on blue antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray and brown and green and yellow transparent watercolor on cream antique laid paper, framing line on three sides in gray ink
17th centuryDutchRed chalk, with touches of black chalk, partially incised in contour at left side of face and in curls, on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown oil-based ink monotype, extensively burnished, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk with gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash, and graphite on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper, two framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryDutch