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 on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper; verso: red and black chalk
16th-17th centuryItalianBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, brown wash, white gouache, traces of black chalk and scratchwork at left, laid down overall to cream antique laid paper
15th-16th centuryItalianRed chalk and white gouache on sanguine-toned cream antique laid paper, laid down overall to cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, mounted overall to cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and gray-brown wash, white gouache, over graphite on tan antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, brown and gray wash over red chalk on white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianGouache with traces of watercolor over black chalk on dark cream antique laid paper, mounted overall to board with a blue decorated antique laid paper border
16th centuryItalianBrown ink on tan antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBlack and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink, gray and brown wash, and touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall on cream modern wove paper
16th centuryItalian