16th century
18.2 x 36.6 cm (7 3/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
Jonathan Richardson Sr., London (Lugt 2184). Joshua Reynolds, London (Lugt 2364). Thomas Lawrence, London (Lugt 2445); to his Estate, sold; to Samuel Woodburn, London, 1830, sold; to Lord Francis, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, Egerton (Lugt 2710b), 1836 or 1837, by descent; to Duke of Sutherland, sold [through Sotheby’s, London, December 5, 1972, lot 75]; to Yvonne tan Bunzel, London. Sold [through Christie’s, New York, January 12, 1995, lot 7]; to Vermeer Associates Limited, Brompton, Ontario, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1996
Oil on antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink on blue-green prepared antique laid paper; verso: brown ink and blue wash
16th-17th centuryItalianMetalpoint, brown ink and white gouache on pink prepared antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
15th-16th centuryItalianBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash on dark cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBlack chalk and brown ink on beige antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash, squared in black chalk on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and gray-brown wash, white gouache, over graphite on tan antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBlack ink, black wash, black chalk and graphite (?) on cream antique laid paper, bordered in brown ink, laid down overall to cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink with brown wash on cream antique laid paper
15th-16th centuryItalianBrown ink heightened with white gouache on gray-blue antique laid paper
16th centuryItalian