Lot Essay
The late Professor I.Q. van Regteren Altena accepted with reservations an attribution to Philips Koninck. Professor Sumowski discounted Maes and Koninck and suggested Roelandt Roghman.
The subdued colouring and the handling of wash is reminiscent of Abraham de Verwer (circa 1600-1650), such as the drawings in the Institut Néerlandais (W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1958, II, no. 630, illustrated) and formerly in the Tobias Christ collection, Sotheby's, 9 April 1981, lot 47, illustrated in colour
The subdued colouring and the handling of wash is reminiscent of Abraham de Verwer (circa 1600-1650), such as the drawings in the Institut Néerlandais (W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1958, II, no. 630, illustrated) and formerly in the Tobias Christ collection, Sotheby's, 9 April 1981, lot 47, illustrated in colour