c. 1510
34.8 x 24 cm (13 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
General Antoine-François Andréossy (according to Rodrigues sale catalogue). Antonio Barboza, Paris (L. 77, lower right). Eugène Rodrigues, Paris (L. 897, lower left), sold; [Muller, Amsterdam, 12-13 July 1921, lot 131, repr. pl. LII]; to Muller. Franz Koenigs, Haarlem; by descent to his heirs, sold; [Sotheby's, New York, 23 January 2001, lot 3, repr. p. 17], bought in and subsequently sold; to Vermeer Associates, Limited, Brampton, Ontario, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums; The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Mary and Michael Gellert, inv. no. 2004.85. NOTE: The sequence to Franz Koenigs directly from the auction at Muller's is not proven. The drawing may have bought in at that sale and then sold to Koenigs.
Brown ink, brown wash, and touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, gray wash and oxidized white opaque watercolor over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
16th-17th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and gray, yellow and rose wash over black chalk, incised, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted on an album leaf; verso: outlines of recto are traced through in black chalk, incised
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink over graphite; some red chalk on vase
16th centuryNetherlandishBlack ink on off-white antique laid paper, incised, black ink framing line, blackened on the verso for transfer to copper plate
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink on light tan antique laid paper; verso: two tones of brown ink
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, brown wash, and graphite on light tan antique laid paper, with two compass lines, the lower of which reinforced with graphite, laid down on antique laid paper
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and brown wash over black chalk on three pieces of cream antique laid paper; some (later?) gray wash on Adam's crotch; partial framing line in brown ink; verso: faint black chalk sketches of architectural motifs
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink and brown wash on wood
16th centuryNetherlandishBlack ink, gray wash and white opaque watercolor, incised, on brown prepared paper, framing line in black ink
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink over black chalk on light tan antique laid paper
16th centuryNetherlandishBrown ink, brown and gray wash and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper
16th centuryNetherlandish