Studies of a boy, half-length, in profile to the right, and the same in a plumed hat looking down to the left, and a study of a right leg

The drawings in the album sold from the Giroux Collection can be identified by the distinctive numbering in pen and brown ink in the upper right corner. The album may have been put together by Bloemaert's son Hendrick, although a number of the drawings also have inscriptions in the hand of Jan Pietersz. Zoomer, a dealer-collector active in Amsterdam in the early 18th Century. Many, although not all, of the drawings can be connected either with works by Abraham Bloemaert or with the Konstryk Tekenboek, a series of prints engraved by Hendrick Bloemaert for the instruction of young artists.
Further sheets from the Giroux album were sold at Christie's, New York, 22 January 2003, lot 88; Christie's, London, 10 July 2001, lot 153 and 4 July 2000, lot 214; Christie's, Amsterdam, 9 November 1998, lots 36-37 and from the Alfred Normand Collection, Christie's, Monaco, 20 June 1994, lot 76.