Lot Essay
Evidently a design for a picture above a door or window, this is comparable to drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (T. DaCosta Kaufmann, Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680, Princeton, 1982, pp. 128-9, no. 45) and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (E. Brugerolles [ed.], Renaissance des Nordens, Hamburg, 1986, pp. 68-9, no. 32)