16th century
22.2 × 20.2 cm (8 3/4 × 7 15/16 in.)
Archduke Friedrich of Austria. [Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay, Vienna, Austria]; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA, by 1931, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965
Oil paint on antique laid paper, varnished
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink with brown wash on cream antique laid paper
15th-16th centuryItalianBlack chalk on blue antique laid paper
16th-17th centuryItalianBrown ink heightened with white gouache on gray-blue antique laid paper
16th centuryItalianPastel on blue antique laid paper, with irregular surface glaze (gum arabic?), laid down
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, gray ink, brown wash and traces of black chalk, main figure lightly incised, on cream antique laid paper with infill at bottom edge, edge of infill covered in white gouache
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: red and black chalk
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash, with red and black chalks, heightened with white gouache (oxidized to black) on off-white antique laid paper, pricked and incised for transfer
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and graphite, incised, on cream antique laid paper inlaid into off-white antique laid album page; verso: brown ink and graphite, off-white antique laid album page incised
16th centuryItalianBrown ink and brown wash over graphite on tan antique laid paper, traced over with a stylus and irregularly squared in black chalk
16th-17th centuryItalianRed chalk with traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall
16th centuryItalianBrown ink, brown wash and black chalk on blue (?) antique laid paper, pricked for transfer; verso: covered in black chalk
16th-17th centuryItalian