DrawingsNetherlandish16th century

Winter

16th century

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, gray wash, and trace of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and black chalk, vertical [ruled?] line in graphite

Culture

Netherlandish

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

29.5 x 28.9 cm (11 5/8 x 11 3/8 in.) Mount: 37 x 36.2 cm (14 9/16 x 14 1/4 in.)

Provenance

[Christie's, London, 14 April 1992, lot 177A (as Circle of Pieter Coecke van Aelst)], sold; [to Vermeer Associates, Ltd., Brampton, Ontario], long-term loan; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1992, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.

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