c. 1650
19.1 x 19.7 cm (7 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.)
[Possibly Georg Ernst Harzen, Hamburg.] Freiherr Reinhold von Liphart, Rathshof, Russia (L. 1758, verso, upper right), sold; [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 26 April 1898, lot 479]. Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt, Berlin (L. 2926, verso, lower left) sold; [Prestel, Frankfurt, 4 October 1917, lot 279, repr. pl. 73.] [Gustav Nebehay Gallery, Berlin] sold; to [P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 17 October 1929] sold; to Carl Robert Rudolf, London, 30 April 1934 (L. 2811b, verso, lower left), sold; via E. Jacobs, London, to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1975 (L. 3306, verso, lower left); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 2008.254.
Graphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchGray wash, graphite, and black ink on cream antique laid paper, double framing line in brown ink, laid down on a mount
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and red chalk, with later additions of brown ink, red chalk, and gray wash, on off-white antique laid paper cut into an oval and mounted to off-white antique laid paper, framing lines and horixontal and vertical axes lines in graphite
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk and graphite, and touches of white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in gray ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink and gold wash; verso: graphite tracing of two figures from upper left recto
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, laid down
17th centuryDutchOffset in brown wash on parchment (from the drawing on folio 22 verso); verso: graphite, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutchWatercolor, gouache, and brown and gray ink on cream antique laid paper, mounted down entirely on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutch