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.
Black and white chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and colored wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchOpaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, mounted at four corners
17th-18th centuryDutchGraphite and black chalk on beige antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchWatercolor and black and red chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, and touches of graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, brown ink, and gray and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink and in black chalk
16th-17th centuryDutch