Lot Essay
Both Professor Sumowski and Wilhelm Gerson place the present drawing among Koninck's later work. Professor Sumowski further suggests that the sheet can be related to the Lamentation datable to 1671 in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Brunswick, W. Sumowski, op. cit., no. 1354. This relationship can be seen particularly in the sharp angularity of line which defines the figures.
The composition is derived from a drawing by Rembrandt belonging to Atherton Curtis, Paris, O. Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, London, 1973, V, no. 986.
The composition is derived from a drawing by Rembrandt belonging to Atherton Curtis, Paris, O. Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, London, 1973, V, no. 986.