16th century
actual: 20.6 x 30 cm (8 1/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, Paris (L. 2951 (as Pierre Crozat), sold [through his sale, P. Remy, Paris, January 18-28, 1770, no. 177]. Unidentified collector. Private collector, New York, sold [through P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London and New York]; to Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, 1994, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1997.
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
16th centuryItalianBrown ink on beige antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink, brown wash, and black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, red wash over red chalk on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianTempera (and/or oil), charcoal, and stylus, varnished overall, on paper
16th centuryItalianMetalpoint, brown ink and white gouache on pink prepared antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
15th-16th centuryItalianBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
16th centuryItalianBlack ink and black wash over black chalk on antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianAlbum with blue-paper covered card covers and leather spine and corners
16th centuryItalianBlack chalk on beige antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, brown wash over black chalk, traces of red chalk, heightened with white gouache, on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash over graphite (?) on cream antique laid paper, incised
16th centuryItalian