Description: Pen and brown ink, 149 x 92 mm. No watermark. Chain lines: 25 mm. Numbered at the bottom right, 1859 (Sparre) and 194 (struck out). Further inscriptions in both lower corners are cut off and not legible.

This drawing was first attributed to Koninck in the 1967 exhibition, with the catalogue reporting favourable opinions from Regteren Altena, Valentiner and Byam Shaw. Sumowski agrees and dates it to c. 1655–58. The man is seen in profile, holding some kind of staff as an attribute. The manner is similar to the copies from oriental manuscripts made by Rembrandt, usually dated to the later half of the 1650s. The carefully drawn outlines without pentimenti suggest that this too is a copy. Conspicuously different are the feet, sketchy and less well defined, but quite characteristic of Koninck. The figure has a parallel in a drawing in Düsseldorf, representing a group of orientals, but they are drawn in a sketchier manner, more like other drawings by Koninck. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 223]

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