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 and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, brown wash and graphite (?) on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBlack, red and white chalk on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash, with red and black chalks, heightened with white gouache (oxidized to black) on off-white antique laid paper, pricked and incised for transfer
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, brown wash and white gouache on cream antique laid paper toned with a brown wash, laid down overall on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall to off-white wove paper
16th centuryItalianRed chalk, red wash on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk with white gouache on tan antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
16th-17th centuryItalian