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Lot Essay
Other drawings from this series are in a German private collection and in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne (H. Robels, Niederländische Zeichnungen, Wallraf-Richartz Museum Köln, Cologne, 1983, no. 211, illustrated). Further drawings were sold anonymously at Drouot, Paris, 24 April 1997, lot 74, and in these Rooms, 24 November 1992, lot 162, (as 'Circle of Jacob Symonsz. Pynas').
The Wallraf-Richartz catalogue notes that in 1982 Professor Werner Sumowski attributed the drawing to the little-known Willem van Oordt (active 17th Century), comparing it to a drawing in an Amsterdam private collection. While both the present sheet and the Amsterdam drawing date from the early 17th Century, the Amsterdam draughtsman has also been placed by various scholars within both the circles of pre- Rembrandt and the Bamboccianti.
The Wallraf-Richartz catalogue notes that in 1982 Professor Werner Sumowski attributed the drawing to the little-known Willem van Oordt (active 17th Century), comparing it to a drawing in an Amsterdam private collection. While both the present sheet and the Amsterdam drawing date from the early 17th Century, the Amsterdam draughtsman has also been placed by various scholars within both the circles of pre- Rembrandt and the Bamboccianti.