c. 1651
14.4 x 11.7 cm (5 11/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
Sir Charles Greville, (L. 549, verso, lower left) by descent; to his nephew, George Guy Greville, Fourth Earl of Warwick, Warwick Castle (without the family mark, L. 2600), by descent; to Charles Guy Fulke Greville, Seventh Earl of Warwick, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 17 March 1936, part of lot 128];* to [Edward Speelman, London]. [Schaeffer Galleries, New York], sold; to Leroy M. Backus, Seattle; [Schaeffer Galleries, New York], sold; to [Robert M. Light & Co., Boston], sold; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1956; Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund, 1956.228. *In the 1936 Sotheby’s sale from the Earl of Warwick's collection, the Fogg drawing and another small study by Bol executed primarily in gray wash, Bust of a Bearded Old Man in a Velvet Beret (Sumowski Drawings, 1, no. 143x), were sold as a single lot in one frame. In his entry on the Fogg study (Drawings 1, no. 105), Sumowski describes the drawing formerly in the Earl of Warwick collection as a separate work--“A pen and wash drawing of the same representation (127 x 101 mm), perhaps the conceptional (sic) sketch for the present drawing”--but they are one in the same. The dimensions he gives for the putative sketch are those of Bust of a Bearded Old Man in a Velvet Beret, which is smaller than the Fogg sheet, and this is perhaps why he assumed that the Warwick Woman in a Window with a Pear was another version of the composition.
Black chalk and gray wash on white antique laid paper, remains of a framing line in brown ink, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown and pale brown-gray wash, and touches of white opaque watercolor over traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchCharcoal (oiled?), black chalk, and white chalk on brown antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on paper
16th-17th centuryDutchBrown and black ink, gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, mounted
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in graphite, mounted overall
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchRed chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, incised, two pieces joined
17th-18th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, black chalk, and white opaque watercolor on tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch