DrawingsFlemish16th-17th century

Sketches of Animals

16th-17th century

Artists

Frans SnydersArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink and brown and gray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink

Culture

Flemish

Century

16th-17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

22.9 x 18.3 cm (9 x 7 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

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