Professor Werner Sumowski kindly suggested the attribution. Landscape drawings of this type were traditionally called Elsheimer, this was in turn rejected by the late Keith Andrews who proposed that they were by Gerrit Battem, to whom the present study had been ascribed. In subject, technique and handling the present lot may be compared to landscapes in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York, 1992, 10, no. 2442X) and the British Museum, London (Sumowski, op.cit., no. 2443X).
Sumowski suggests an alternative attribution to Philips Koninck