17th century
22.4 x 19.5 cm (8 13/16 x 7 11/16 in.) mount: 29.7 x 28.4 cm (11 11/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
Zaccaria Sagredo, Venice [with Sagredo inventory numbers P.O. no: 154 on verso and P.O. no. 65 on mount; Lugt 2103a]; his nephew, Gherardo Sagredo, Venice, by descent. [Hotel Drouot, Paris (P. Renaud), May 23, 1986, lot 205 (as Dutch 17th century)]. [Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 15 November 1994, no. 96] sold; to [Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario] sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2004. The drawing may have been part of the large group of Sagredo drawings sold in Lyon c. 1919. Drawing was on long-term loan to the Fogg, 1995-2004.
Black chalk on vellum
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, and black chalk on light tan antique laid paper; verso: graphite, black ink, and red chalk
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchBrown, gray and gray-blue wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink; a paper inlay 10 mm wide around the edges on the verso
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash, partly incised, on cream antique laid paper, mounted down entirely
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on an English (?) mount
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash and white opaque watercolor or chalk on blue paper
17th centuryDutchGray and brown wash on parchment
17th centuryDutch