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.
Gouache, watercolor, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk counterproof, possibly worked up in black chalk
17th centuryDutchGraphite and gray wash, incised in places, on off-white antique-laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, black chalk on cream antique laid paper, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchTransparent watercolor over graphite on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray-brown wash on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk with touches of graphite and incidental marks in brown ink(?) on parchment, autograph framing line in black chalk
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue paper, faded to gray-beige, partial framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray and red wash, incised, on cream antique laid paper, with two framing lines in gray ink; verso: incised, with oil residue
17th-18th centuryDutchWatercolor and gouache on dark cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack, red and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
17th centuryDutch