Description: Pen and brown ink, 98 x 85 mm. Watermark: Uncertain. Chain lines: 22 mm. Inscribed in the lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, 1835 (Sparre).

Kruse noted the similarity of the model and his dress to a Reclining Young Man in the British Museum. The latter has generally been considered to be by Rembrandt, but Lugt thought it belonged to a group of drawings by an unspecified pupil of Rembrandt. Several were attributed to Drost by Valentiner and later by Pont. Benesch also considered some of these drawings to be by an anonymous member of Rembrandt’s circle. Haverkamp-Begemann attributed our drawing and the one in London to an anonymous follower of Rembrandt. Sumowski, agreeing that they are by the same hand, has suggested Drost. This has been accepted by Royalton-Kisch, who dates the drawings to c. 1650–55. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 136]

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