Tobias Verhaecht (1561-1631)

As Guy Grieten noted (op.cit. p.60) the present lot may be compared to a drawing signed and dated 1616 in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (F. Stampfle, Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century, Flemish & Dutch Drawings of the 17th Century from the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1979, no. 3, fig. 3) and to a similar drawing at Budapest (T. Gerszi, Netherlandish Drawings in the Budapest Museum, Sixteenth Century Drawings, Amsterdam, 1971, I, p.96, no.291, II, illustrated p. 295