Description: Pen and brown ink, 42 x 33 mm. Laid down. Monogrammed and dated in the drawing, on the right, JvO 1644. Numbered in the upper right corner, in pen and brown ink, 1822 (Sparre). Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638).

Hofstede de Groot considered this to be perhaps a copy after an etching by Rembrandt. Kruse went further and attributed the drawing to Rembrandt, comparing it to the etchings of small heads by him, such as Bartsch 317. Schnackenburg, too, sees an influence from Rembrandt, and indeed the way the pen lines stop at the bottom suggests a small finished study, if not a copy. A number of drawings in various collections (Oxford, Cambridge, Munich, Haarlem) are stylistically close. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 282]

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