Hoofd van een bebaarde man en draperiestudie van een zittende figuur tot aan het middel

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The reclining figure is connected to another drawing in Braunschweig and a print (in reverse image) by Chrispijn de Passe after a design by Bloemaert, both after a lost painting of the Annunciation to the Shepherds from around 1600.¹ The two drawings differ from the print in which the outstretched lower leg is covered. The drapery study on the reverse is similar to two sketches of a seated St John in Bristol (mirror view) and Poughkeepsie.² According to Bolten the red chalk drawing may be an offprint (Abklatsch or contre-épreuve) from another drawing, judging from the faint chalk lines.