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Sleeping Watchdog

Sleeping Watchdog

(Dutch, 1606–1669)
1637–40
Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, with touches of opaque white watercolor, on cream laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 14.3 x 16.8 cm (5 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
Framed: 31.4 x 36.5 cm (12 3/8 x 14 3/8 in.)
Credit LineJohn H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund
Accession number56.519
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceBy 1947, Lucien Guiraud, Paris; by descent to his widow; June 14-15, 1956, Guiraud collection sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris lot 62, sold to Maurice Gobin (1883–1962), Paris, and William H. Schab, New York; 1956, sold by Schab to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 11, 1956)