15th century
7.4 x 12.5 cm (2 15/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Karl Edward von Liphart, Dorpat, Bonn, and Florence (Lugt 1687), by descent; to Reinhold von Liphart, his grandson, 1891 (Lugt 1758), sold; [through his sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, June 27, 1899, probably lot 429]. Johannes Rump (Lugt 3401), Copenhagen, sold; [through his sale, Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin, May 25-27, 1908, lot 387]. Charles A. Loeser, Florence, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932
Brown ink, brown wash and white gouache, with minimal black chalk underdrawing, on cream antique laid paper
15th centuryItalianMetalpoint on gray prepared paper; verso: red chalk on cream antique laid paper
15th-16th centuryItalianBlack ink, gray wash, and white gouache, on cream antique laid paper prepared with orange-brown wash, retouched with traces of brown ink, pricked for transfer, laid down overall to cream antique laid paper
15th centuryItalianBrown ink and black chalk on two sheets of dark cream antique laid paper, each sheet laid down on multi-laminate antique laid paper
15th centuryItalianRed chalk, with one black chalk line across top, on cream antique laid cream paper with remnants of gray mount on verso
15th-16th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash, strengthened with black ink, on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall to antique laid paper, itself laid down overall to twentieth-century white card
15th centuryItalianLeadpoint on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk; verso: leadpoint and brown ink, squared with stylus
15th-16th 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 centuryItalianBrush and brown ink, white gouache, orange wash, incised, on pink-purple prepared parchment
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 with traces of black chalk; verso: black chalk
15th centuryItalian, VenetianBrown ink, black chalk and white gouache over traces of metalpoint and red chalk on antique laid paper thinly prepared with a light brown wash
15th centuryItalian