This belongs to a group of studies which were first given to Aert Ortkens, a glass painter from Nijmegen, by Friedländer in 1917. Since then it has become clear that the drawings are not by a single hand, but are probably products from a sizeable studio which, as K.G. Boon noted in Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, The Hague, 1978, I, pp. 137-8, was most likely in Brussels. A drawing by the same hand and of the same subject, but of different composition, is in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (Boon, op.cit., I, no. 384, II, pl. 384). Two other designs for glass roundels, Christ disputing with the Doctors in the Temple and The Adoration of the Magi, by the same hand were exhibited in London in 1962, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C.R. Rudolf, nos. 114-5, one of which was sold, Sotheby's Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 6 June 1977, lot 7, illustrated