c. 1650-1655
17 x 23.6 cm (6 11/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Unidentified collector (illegible fragment of blue or black stamp, lower right). Adolph von Beckerath, Berlin. Count Gregori Sergeievitch Stroganoff, Rome (L. 550, verso, lower left). [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig.] Dr. C. Gaa, Mannheim (L. 538a, verso, lower center), sold; [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 9 May 1930, lot 55 (as Ferdinand Bol)]. [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 19 June 1937, lot 379 (as Rembrandt School)]. [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 28 April 1939, lot 342, repr. pl. 33 (as Circle of Rembrandt)]. Ernst Jürgen Otto, Celle (L. 873b, verso, lower center), sold; to [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1960], sold; to [Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1989 (L. 3306, verso, lower center). The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1999.136.
Graphite on parchment
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk , graphite, and gray wash on parchment
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on light tan antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack ink, gray wash, black chalk, stray white opaque watercolor, stray red pastel, and stray blue-green transparent watercolor stains on light tan antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on thick antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, mounted on antique laid paper; verso: traces of black chalk
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor, incised, on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor, gray ink and graphite on parchment, mounted ata four corners
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, gray ink, gray wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk, colored washes on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGray wash, graphite, and black ink on cream antique laid paper, double framing line in brown ink, laid down on a mount
17th centuryDutchGray wash and black chalk with scratchwork and touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
17th centuryDutch