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 red wash, over traces of black chalk, partially incised, on cream antique laid paper; traces of later restoration in white opaque watercolor; verso: black chalk and graphite
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor, gray ink over graphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchGraphite and metalpoint (?) on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGouache and watercolor
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and [later?] gray wash over graphite, partially incised, on cream antique-laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted overall on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, with a framing line in black chalk, on blue antique laid paper with a strip added at the lower edge, laid down on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over black chalk; two overlapping rectangles in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink and brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on antique laid paper probably toned with light brown wash, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutch