c. 1650-1655
17 x 23.6 cm (6 11/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Unidentified collector (illegible fragment of blue or black stamp, lower right). Adolph von Beckerath, Berlin. Count Gregori Sergeievitch Stroganoff, Rome (L. 550, verso, lower left). [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig.] Dr. C. Gaa, Mannheim (L. 538a, verso, lower center), sold; [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 9 May 1930, lot 55 (as Ferdinand Bol)]. [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 19 June 1937, lot 379 (as Rembrandt School)]. [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 28 April 1939, lot 342, repr. pl. 33 (as Circle of Rembrandt)]. Ernst Jürgen Otto, Celle (L. 873b, verso, lower center), sold; to [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1960], sold; to [Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1989 (L. 3306, verso, lower center). The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1999.136.
Brown ink and brown and gray wash over graphite on antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, colored washes on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on gray prepared paper; verso: black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchRed chalk and red chalk wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on brownish-gray prepared paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, mounted to blue paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on white antique laid paper, extensively incised, framing line in brown ink, laid down on Japanese paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, and later brown wash, incised, on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown and black ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, mounted on old lining
17th centuryDutch