Lot Essay
Another version of this composition, described by Seymour Slive as a nineteenth-century copy, is in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, while a further version of low quality is or was in the École Municipale de Dessin de Saint-Nazaire-sur-Loire (see S. Slive, Frans Hals, III, New York and London, 1974, p. 128, fig. 103, under no. D2).