A crowd watching actors in an outdoor theater, with a couple dancing, a classical portico beyond

Verschuring completed his artistic education in Italy. Following his return to the Netherlands in 1654 his drawings tended to reflect his military background, but occasionally, as in the present drawing, a memory of the South returns. Another Italianate drawing was the following lot in the Houthakker sale, while a third was sold at Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 11 November 1997, lot 134.