A kneeling saint with studies of hands holding a stick

The man kneeling in prayer is close to the figure of Ignatius of Loyola in Christ and God the Father, appearing in a Vision to Ignatius of Loyola, a drawing datable to 1629-1630 in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (inv. RP-T-1883-A-255; see J. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1565-1651. The Drawings, Leiden, 2007, I, no. 285, II, fig. 285). That composition was engraved in the same direction by Cornelis Bloemaert the Younger (ibid., fig. 285a), and Abraham is known to have made a painting of the same subject for the Jesuits church in 's-Hertogenbosch in 1622 (ibid., under no. 285). The hand at lower left holding a staff can be found in a drawing from the so-called Cambridge album (ibid., no. 1296, ill.) which was engraved in reverse by Bloemaert’s son Frederick for his Tekenboek (see M.G. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons. Paintings and Prints, Ghent, 1993, no. T 20, ill.).
We are grateful to Professor Jaap Bolten for confirming the attribution to Abraham Bloemaert. The drawing will be published in Jaap Bolten's forthcoming second supplement on Bloemaert's drawings.