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.
Black chalk , with touches of white gouache, on dark cream antique laid paper, mounted overall to cream antique laid paper hinged to decorative mount.
16th centuryItalianBlack and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on tan antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink on off-white antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, brown wash over black chalk, squared in black chalk, on tan antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianRed and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall on cream antique laid decorative mount
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash, over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, with some smudges of red chalk on antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
16th centuryItalianBlack and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBlack and white chalk on brown antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and gray-brown wash over black chalk with touches of red chalk on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, squared in brown ink, laid down overall to cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalian