17th century
10.8 x 10 cm (4 1/4 x 3 15/16 in.)
Possibly Queen Christina of Sweden. Prince Livio Odescalchi, Rome (?-1713), by descent; to Odescalchi Family (1713-1957), sold; [through Sotheby’s, Rome, November 20, 1957, lot 67]; [to H. M. Calmann, New York (1957-1960), sold]; to Marian Harris Phinney, Cambridge, MA (1960-1962), bequeathed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962. Note: The drawing was preserved in what Marcel Roethlisberger has called “The Animal Album” until the album was dismantled in 1957 after it was purchased at Sotheby’s by H. M. Calmann. Hence the listed provenance refers to the entire album until 1957, after which the drawing was sold separately.
Red, black, and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on four sheets of cream antique laid paper, with blue wove paper strips adhered to face
17th-18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk, extensively stumped, on light tan antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount
17th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryFrenchBrown and gray ink, gray wash, and white gouache over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
17th centuryFrenchBlack ink and gray and brown wash with traces of black chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk and graphite
17th centuryFrenchRed and black chalk, gray and red-chalk wash, and touches of brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines and guidelines in red chalk, laid down on off-white paper, laid down on a decorated mount, laid down on blue-green wove paper
17th centuryFrenchBlack chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryFrenchGraphite and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on decorated paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th centuryFrenchBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black and brown ink
17th centuryFrenchBrown ink and graphite with brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, partially incised; verso: rubbed with graphite
17th centuryFrench, LorraineseColored chalks on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, with cream antique laid paper strips adhered to face
16th-17th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrench