Lot Essay
Closely comparable to the study of a similar figure in the same technique by Flinck in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (inv. no. A 2460), W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York, 1981, IV, p. 1956, no. 901, illustrated. Further comparable drawings are in the British Museum in London (inv. no. 1885-11-14-97), in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (inv. no. 1327) and in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris (inv. no. 391), Sumowski, op. cit., nos. 897, 899 and 900, all illustrated.