Description: Graphite on parchment, 335 x 449 mm. Ruled framing lines in black ink. Signed at the bottom right, in graphite, CARenesse inventor fecit / 1645. Numbered in the upper left corner, in pen and brown ink, 221, and on the mount 1748 (Sparre). Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638).

The 19-year-old artist has eclectically combined a figure scene reminiscent of Adriaen van de Venne or Pieter Quast with a backdrop of classical ruins. Sumowski also underlines that the technique and style are dependent on Quast. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 384]

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