The attribution has been kindly confirmed by Prof Dr Werner Sumowski on the basis of a photograph in a letter of 18 September 1994; he compares the present lot with the Minerva and the Muses on Mount Helikon in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen (see W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, IV, 1983, p. 2751, with ill.)

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