c. 1661-1662
9.9 x 13.1 cm (3 7/8 x 5 3/16 in.) mount: 24.9 x 16.6 cm (9 13/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Jane Cleaver (Mrs. Robert Bell Livesey), by 1789, by descent; to .Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Peters Turton. Mr. and Mrs. Multon and Marianne Lambarde, Beechmont, Kent, by 1848, by descent; to A.C.M.B. Scott, by 1896, sale; [Christie's, London, 10 July 1973; lot 12], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (L. 3306, mount, verso, lower left); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.156.. NOTE: This drawing was preserved in an album that was made in the late seventeenth century, originally containing 164 drawings. The title page of the album read, "Verscheyde studies van Berchem, Potter, V. d. Velde, Ostade, Backhuysen, Jardyn, Schellings, Snyders, Bamboots, de Gyn, Koning &c. &c."
Brown ink and black and red chalk on oatmeal (formerly blue) paper; verso: brown ink and black chalk
17th centuryDutchGray wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on parchment, framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGouache and watercolor
17th-18th centuryDutchRed chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, incised, two pieces joined
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown, gray and gray-blue wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray wash, some incised lines in lower half of added strip at right, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch