PROVENANCE
Prints and a Few Drawings from Great Collections of the Past
  1. Master MR, Christ on the Cross
  2. Dürer, St. Bartholomew
  3. Dürer, Christ Before Caiaphas
  4. Raimondi, Philosophy
  5. Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids
  6. Beham, Job Conversing
  7. Beham, Satyr Sounding a Horn
  8. Beham, Peasant Couple Walking
  9. Caraglio, Martyrdom of St. Paul
  10. Aldegrever, Standard Bearer
  11. Pencz, Feeding the Hungry
  12. Pencz, Artemisia Preparing
  13. Falconetto, Tomb Surmounted
  14. Claesz, St. Peter Seated
  15. Treu, Noble Dancers
  16. Master FP, Hercules Killing
  17. Brun, February
  18. Solis, Arithmetria
  19. de Bruyn, The Circumcision
  20. Sadeler, Virgin and Child
  21. Goltzius, A Young Man
  22. Matham, The Planets
  23. Brizio, Extensive Landscape
  24. van de Velde, Fête Villageoise
  25. van de Velde, Backgammon
  26. van Uyttenbroek, Tobias
  27. van Uyttenbroek, Bacchus
  28. Rembrandt, The Small Lion Hunt
  29. Hollar, Woman with Headdress
  30. Saftleven, Dutch Peasant
  31. Ostade, Bust of a Peasant
  32. Stoop, A Grazing Horse
  33. Fyt, Set of Animals
  34. Bega, The Three Drinkers
  35. Anonymous, Landscape
  36. Nanteuil, Charles Benoise
  37. Nanteuil, Cardinal Mazarin
  38. Nanteuil, Pierre Seguier
  39. van Vliet, St. Jerome Sitting
  40. Cossin, Ornament Design
  41. Sirani, St. Eustace
  42. Somer, Hagar and Ishmael
  43. Daullé, La Muse Clio
  44. Tiepolo, The Holy Family
  45. MacArdell, Hannah, Mrs. Horneck
  46. Laurie, Elizabeth, Dutchess
  47. Denon, Village Scene
  48. Charlet, Les Français
  49. Pieraccini, Holy Family
  50. Daumier, Y n’y a rien comm’
  51. Daubigny, Les Ruines du Chateau
  52. Daubigny, Lever de Lune
  53. Meryon, Le Petit Pont
  54. Rops, La Poupée du Satyre
  55. Whistler, Old Hungerford Bridge
  56. Legros, Un Coin de Rivière
  57. Buhot, Frontispice
  58. Forain, La Rencontre
  59. Pennell, Hampton Court Palace
  60. Delâtre, Silhouette de Femme

29. Wenzel Hollar
(1607-1677)
Woman with a Dark Headdress and Fur Stole

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Hollar, Woman with Headdress

Woman with a Dark Headdress and Fur Stole

Other Images:

Etching, 1642, 98 x 92 mm., Parthey 1933, Pennington 1933 only state. Fine, dark impression on laid paper with good margins outside the rectangular plate mark; slight traces of old fold marks. Hollar was probably the first truly international etcher, wending his way from his birthplace in Bohemia through most of Europe (including Gibralter), noting down, in drawings and prints, varieties of landscape, of dress, of architecture and of customs, as well as reproducing rare and valuable works of art he saw on his journeys. The woman -- and the fashion -- pictured here are certainly English and the work may actually be a portrait, taken from an ivory miniature.

Provenance:
John Charrington (Lugt 572). Charrington (1856-1939) was the print curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the author of the catalog of its collection, as well as of other print studies. A collector himself, he gave most of his personal collection to the Fitzwilliam, including 5-6000 portrait engravings, works by Schongauer and Mantegna, and early proof impressions of the David Lucas mezzotints after Constable. The remainder of his collection, presumably prints the Fitzwilliam already had, was sold at auction in 1911 and, after his death, in 1940.