A man courting a woman in an interior

In reverse after the painting, signed and dated 1653, in the National Gallery, London, inv. no. 2542. The composition, which became known by the title Het Schollenmannetje ('The Little Plaice Man'), was engraved by Cornelis Visscher (1-1662), Jacob Gole (c. 1660-c. 1737) and Peter Schenk (1660-c. 1718), and given the reversal of the composition, it is likely that the present work is taken from one of those derivations.