DrawingsDutch17th century

Six Studies of an Old Woman's Head

c. 1625-30

Artists

Jacques de Gheyn IIIArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink and white opaque watercolor over traces of black chalk on light tan antique laid paper

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

37.4 x 23.7 cm (14 3/4 x 9 5/16 in.)

Provenance

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.

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