Description: Pen and black ink, on paper tinted yellow, 202 x 306 mm (recto, the opening), 208 x 314 mm (verso, the full sheet). Verso: St Peter denies Christ, pen and black ink, on paper tinted yellow. Vertical fold in the centre. No watermark. Chain lines: 25 mm. Inscribed in the lower left corner, Hyllan VIII (De la Gardie). On the verso (previously the recto), the mark of J. G. De la Gardie (Lugt 2722a), the museum mark (Lugt 1981) and the present inventory number in pencil.

A similar composition representing the “Arrest of Christ” is in Bremen.  An identical version of “Peter’s Denial”, but considerably larger, is found in a drawing in the Rijksprentenkabinet in Amsterdam.  The present drawing includes some details that are less easy to read, such as Christ’s arm in the left background, or the head and clasped hands of the soldier standing with his back to St Peter. This suggests a copy rather than a replica. On the other hand, the drawing was first sketched with the pen and thinner grey lines. The style is similar to Bramer’s copy after Caravaggio’s Entombment in the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 99]

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