Description: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, 159 x 96 mm. No watermark. Chain lines: 25 mm. Numbered in the lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, 1856 (Sparre) and 202 (struck out). Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638).

Apart from Michel’s attribution to Rembrandt, scholars have agreed in giving this drawing to Koninck. It can be compared to drawings such as Christ and the Adulteress in Berlin or The Three Marys in the Fondation Custodia. Traditionally, the motif was thought to be a young woman in an interior. Kruse interpreted the object to the right as a well, with a bucket suspended above the opening. This seems justified. Gerson lists five other versions of the motif by Koninck, but none of them similar to this one. Without questioning Kruse’s interpretation, Gerson believes that the direct model for Koninck was a drawing of Saskia at her toilet by Rembrandt of c. 1633, a comparison dismissed by Sumowski. The drawing is generally dated to the 1650s. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 225]

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