16th century
36.1 x 27 cm (14 3/16 x 10 5/8 in.) frame: 53.3 x 41.9 x 3.2 cm (21 x 16 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)
Henry Constantine Jennings (L. 2771). Thomas Lawrence (without his mark); [Samuel Woodburn]; William II, King of Holland, his sale, Amsterdam, De Vries, Roos, and Brondgeest, 12 August 1850, lot 153, as "attributed to Michelangelo;" sold to Samuel Woodburn, his sale, London, Christie's, 4 June 1860, lot 137, bought by [dealer?] Enson. Sir John Charles Robinson (L. 1433); his son, Charles Newton Robinson, 1914 (presumably inherited in 1913 from his father). John Hemming Fry; Noel Monod, Greenwich, Conn.; sold to Fogg Art Museum for $1200, 1955.
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBlack and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink over graphite on white antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash, over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianBlack and red chalk on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink and white and pink gouache over black chalk on cream antique laid paper prepared with orange wash
15th-16th centuryItalianBlack and white chalk on gray antique laid paper; verso: brown ink and black chalk [the black chalk drawing has been scratched out in graphite]
16th centuryItalianOil paint on antique laid paper, varnished
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, attached to cream modern wove paper
16th centuryItalianBrown ink with traces of black and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall on cream antique laid paper
15th-16th centuryItalianMetalpoint heightened with white on brown prepared antique laid paper
15th-16th centuryItalian