Description: Pen and brown ink on greyish paper, 210 x 320 mm. A large oil stain at the bottom centre and several smaller ones to the right. No watermark. Chain lines: 22 mm. Annotation at the top, in black chalk, 2 – 00 (?). Numbered in the lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, 2130 (Sparre). Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638).

The bird pulling the chariot across the sky is probably a swan, hence the goddess must be Venus.

The attribution has been suggested by Teresz Gerszi. This type of landscape appears in the work of Goltzius, such as the large panorama in Dresden or the landscape with Mercury in the air in Besançon, and in that of other Mannerists.  Also comparable are some landscape etchings after Goltzius, in particular one by Simon Frisius, dated 1608, and one by G. Gouw, published by Matham. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 257]

Landskap med en vagn i skyn