DrawingsSwiss18th-19th century

Johann Georg Sulzer

18th-19th century

Artists

Anton GraffArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink and gray wash on off-white paper

Culture

Swiss

Century

18th-19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

sight: 12 × 9.4 cm (4 3/4 × 3 11/16 in.) frame: 25.5 × 23.5 cm (10 1/16 × 9 1/4 in.)

Provenance

[Auktionshaus Stuker, Bern, November 18, 1992, lot 1346]. [Hotel de Ventes de Geneve, Geneva, March 9, 2016, lot 970]. [August Laube, Zürich], sold; to Peter Soriano, New York, 2016, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

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