Description: Black chalk, point of brush in brown and brown wash, 221 x 177 mm. Traced for transfer. Watermark: Fleur-de-lis. Chain lines: 24 mm. Inscribed in the lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, Diepenbeck f. Mark of Kongl. Museum (Lugt 1638). Inscribed on the verso, in pen and brown ink, Domenichino invenit, and in red chalk, B 5◦.

Identified by van Tatenhove as an intermediary drawing for a print (in reverse) after Domenichino in Icones et Paradigmata.  Characteristic of De Bisschop’s style is his use of the contour of a washed area to define outlines, reducing the use of chalk to almost invisible guiding lines. Much of the modelling is done with the brush, and he employs this technique freely in the background. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 31]

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