Previously attributed to Adriaen van de Velde, this may be compared to other studies of animals in oil traditionally attributed to Van de Velde in the British Museum, London (A.M. Hind, Catalogue of Drawings by Dutch and Flemish Artists ... in the British Museum, London, 1931, IV, p. 75, no. 5) and in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (inv.nos. 1967:95-9)