The drawing dates from 1593 when Sadeler visited Venice on his way back to Munich from Rome. The impact of Venetian art is reflected in the Tintoretto inspired figures of the present drawing and in studies such as Venus and the Lute Player in the Institut Néerlandais, Paris, based on the Titian painting then in the collection of the Emperor Rudolf II, K.G. Boon, The Netherlandish and German Drawings of the XVth and XVIth Centuries of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 1992, I, no. 164, III, pl. 249. Drawings by Sadeler are relatively rare, apart from sketches for his drawn portraits