Portrait of a youth, small full-length kneeling, in classical style costume, drawing a bow, a dead rabbit beside him, with a spaniel, in a wooded landscape

Frank Rutter, loc. cit., wrote of this picture that: 'Painted in 1673, when the artist was at the height of his powers, this delightful picture goes far towards justifying the opinion that Maes was the most gifted and accomplished of all the pupils of Rembrandt. Unusually brilliant in colour and lighting, and most spirited in treatment throughout...' Noting that the picture was 'obviously a work painted con amore', he remarked on the physical resemblance between the present subject and the boy in the Knabe als Bogenschtze in the Akademie, Vienna. He took the sitters to be the same child, the Vienna picture having been painted when the boy was slightly younger, and suggested that he could be the artist's own son.