Description: Red chalk, red wash, heightened with white (oxidized), on grey paper, 255 x 161 mm. Verso: Seated bishop holding a book and a crozier, red chalk (counter-proof). Fragment of a framing line in brown ink at the bottom right. Lower left corner repaired, and further repairs along the right border. Watermark: Pot. Chain lines: 23–25 mm. Numbered in the lower right corner, in pencil, 1642, and in pen and brown ink, 1449 (Sparre). Verso: Inscribed in the lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, Blommaert, and numbered, in pencil, 1644. Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638).

Bolten expresses doubts about the recto, detecting a lack of volume and “feeble lineature”. But in many respects it is similar, in its use of chalk and wash as well as in style, to a number of drawings of standing prelates. 

The verso is a counter-proof of a seated bishop. The posture is the same as that of St Willibrord in a drawing once in the Perman Collection, Stockholm.  However, many details are different, and both the model of a church and the barrel, which are the saint’s usual attributes, are missing. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 47]

Titel (sv): Biskop med utsträckta armar, stående framåtböjd
Titel (en): Bishop, Standing with Spread Out Arms, Bending Forward (Verso: See NMH 1644/1863)