1578-1580
19.8 x 28.4 cm (7 13/16 x 11 3/16 in.) mount: 21 x 29.4 cm (8 1/4 x 11 9/16 in.)
[Bernard Quaritch, London] sold; to William A. Baillie-Grohman, London and Brixlegg, Tyrol (L. 370, verso, lower right), by descent; to Mrs. William A. Baillie Grohman, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 14 May 1923, part of lot 157-159]; to Charles Francis George Richard Schwerdt, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1929, part of lot 1305]; to Marcel Jeanson, Paris, by descent to; his heirs, sold; [Sotheby's, Monaco, 1 March 1987, lot 524, repr.] [Christie's, Amsterdam, 14 November 1994, lot 18, repr.], sold; to Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1997; purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden and Janine Luke and an anonymous donor in honor of Lisbet and Joseph Koerner, 1997.205. NOTE: Marcel Jeanson's collection had been in storage in Paris from the time of his death in 1942 to the auction in 1987. Please see Rita Reif's article in the New York Times, "Auctions", 13 February 1987, pg. C23.
Two shades of brown ink, blue wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, gray wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black chalk at top, right and bottom left
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and brown wash over touches of black chalk on antique laid paper, toned with red wash and white opaque watercolor
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, brown wash, and touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and brown wash over touches of black chalk, incised, on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, laid down on a gold-bordered mount
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and gray wash
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk, extensively incised, on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink over graphite; some red chalk on vase
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, brown and gray wash and white opaque watercolor on blue antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk and brown ink
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and brown and gray wash with incidental green wash at lower center, incised, on cream antique laid paper, double framing line in brown ink at left and right edges, mounted on album leaf
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryNetherlandish