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.
Brown ink and white opaque watercolor over traces of black chalk on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchGraphite on paper pasted down on parchment
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray and red wash, incised, on cream antique laid paper, with two framing lines in gray ink; verso: incised, with oil residue
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, prepared with brown wash, traces of a framing line in black chalk
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised in design areas and compass-point hole at center, attached to mount with two framing lines in brown ink
16th-17th centuryDutchGraphite on off-white antique laid paper, mounted
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, with framing lines in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch