Description: Black chalk/graphite, pen and brown ink, on vellum, 93 x 68 mm. Faded, with darker ink in the lower part. Signed with a monogram and dated in the upper right corner, IAVDE/ 1638, in pen and brown ink. Mark of J. G. De la Gardie (Lugt 2722a).

This and the following drawing seem to be pendants or part of a series, identical in size and execution, signed and dated the same year. There is a comparable sheet in the Witt Collection in London, signed and dated 1639.  The drawings recall the series of moralizing “portraits” in the engraved series Spiegel ofte Toneel der ydelheyd of 1633.  However, our drawings are somewhat smaller and there are no attributes. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 430]

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