16th century
irregular: 23.8 x 38.6 cm (9 3/8 x 15 3/16 in.)
Zaccaria Sagredo, Venice [with Sagredo inventory B.B. no. 51 on verso and BB on mount; Lugt 2103a]; his nephew, Gherardo Sagredo, Venice, by descent. [Christie’s, London, July 5, 1994, lot 9, repr.] sold; to Vermeer Associates Limited, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998 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, 1994-98.
Brown ink, with an accidental touch of white gouache, on cream antique laid paper laid down to twentieth-century white wove paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
16th centuryItalianBrown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall to off-white wove paper
16th centuryItalianBlack chalk and white gouache on blue antique laid paper (recto and verso)
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, gray-brown wash, and black chalk, squared in graphite, on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink and graphite
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall to cream wove paper decorated mount
16th centuryItalianBrown ink on white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown, blue, pink, and yellow washes over red chalk, squared in black chalk on tan antique laid paper, backed with cloth, itself laid down
16th-17th centuryItalianBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
15th-16th centuryItalianBrown ink on dark cream antique laid paper, partially laid down to two layers of cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and black chalk on dark cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
15th-16th centuryItalianBrown ink and wash squared in black chalk on cream antique laid paper with red chalk offset lower center; verso: faint black chalk sketch
16th-17th centuryItalian