Dr. H.U. Beck has kindly confirmed the attribution to Pieter de Neyn in a letter dated 20 March 1998. He dates the present lot to the 1630s and he compares it with the picture in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, signed and dated 1633 (H.U. Beck, Kýnstler um Van Goyen, 1991, p.958, no959, with ill.).