Mounted Soldier
DrawingsDutch17th century

Mounted Soldier

17th century

Artists

Ludolf de JonghArtist

Description

This sheet forms part of a seventeenth-century Dutch album, in its original binding, which contains 41 small, full-page drawings on parchment by more than 27 different artists.

Classification
Drawings
Medium
Black chalk and graphite (?) on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite (?)
Culture
Dutch
Century
17th century
Division
European and American Art
Department
Department of Drawings

Dimensions

11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 in.)

Provenance

Possibly Pieter Spiering, Delft and The Hague. Private collection, United Kingdom, sold [private sale, via Sotheby's, London]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1987 (Lugt 3306, without their mark), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 1999

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