c. 1625-30
37.4 x 23.7 cm (14 3/4 x 9 5/16 in.)
Probably Comte de Caylus, Paris (L. 474, lower right).[1] Unidentified Collector (L. 525, lower right). Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (L. 2364, lower center). Unidentified Collector (probably L. 3172, lower right). [Otto and Anne Wertheimer, Paris], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1976 (L. 3306, verso, lower left); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Jeff Coolidge, Harvard Class of 1954, 2011.513.
Brown ink on light tan antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk and white opaque watercolor on gray-blue paper, framing line in black chalk at upper edge; verso: trial strokes in colored pastel
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and pale brown-gray wash, and touches of white opaque watercolor over traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchTwo tones of brown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink over graphite
17th centuryDutchparchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk counterproof, possibly worked up in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and transparent and opaque watercolor on antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchRed chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, incised, two pieces joined
17th-18th 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 and gray wash on brownish-gray prepared paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on Asian paper
17th centuryDutchBistre and blue wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch