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.
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and shell gold
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown, gray and gray-blue wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in brown ink and graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, with later graphite, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in red chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on beige antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchGraphite and gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and gray wash over graphite, with a framing line in brown ink, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchGouache, watercolor, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment, framing line in black chalk, mounted down entirely.
17th centuryDutch