c. 1495-1496
29 x 22.5 cm (11 7/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
[Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, 16 May 1923, lot. 81], sold. Jacques Auguste Boussac, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1924, lot 178]. Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus, New York; gift, to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.
Brown ink, with touches of black chalk and white gouache, on off-white antique laid paper
15th centuryItalianBlack ink, gray wash and white gouache on faded blue antique laid paper, laid down overall on cream antique laid paper
15th-16th centuryItalianMetalpoint on gray prepared paper; verso: red chalk on cream antique laid paper
15th-16th centuryItalianMetalpoint heightened with white gouache on pink prepared antique laid paper
15th centuryItalianBrown ink on cream antique laid paper laid down on mount (a warmer second brown ink used to strengthen several figures in the major figural group)
15th centuryItalianBrown ink, sanguine washes and white gouache on sanguine prepared antique laid paper
15th-16th centuryItalianBlack chalk on tan antique laid paper
15th-16th centuryItalianRed chalk heightened with white gouache on dark cream antique laid paper, laid down overall to antique laid paper decorated mount
15th centuryItalianBrown ink , with touches of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall to cream wove decorative mount
15th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink and black chalk
15th centuryItalianOil paint, retouched with brown wash and zinc white on dark cream antique laid paper laid down to dark cream antique laid paper prepared with brown wash, itself laid down to mount of Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (?)
15th centuryItalianBrown ink on cream antique laid paper
15th-16th centuryItalian