Lot Essay
Comparable to a number of drawings of comparable format, subject and technique attributed to Claesz. in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (E. Bock, J. Rosenberg, Die Niederländischen Meister, Berlin, 1930, nos. 12204 and 12318), the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf (inv. no. FP 19997) and formerly in the Kneppelhout Collection; R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 9 March 1920, lot 297, plate 4. Another is The Meeting of Abraham and Melchisedek in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, K.G. Boon, Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, The Hague, 1978, no. 120, illustrated.