This drawing is a characteristic example of the artist’s expressive penwork and compositional style, known from numerous signed drawings (for examples at the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, see M. Schapelhouman and P. Schatborn, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Artists born between 1580 and 1600, Amsterdam, 1998, I, nos. 32, 33, 38, II, ill.).