Attributed to Jan Saenredam (Zaandam 1565-1607 Assendelft)

Father of Pieter (1597-1665), the great painter of churches, Jan Saenredam was above all an engraver who collaborated frequently with Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) and Karel van Mander (1548-1606) (see lot 115). Only a few drawings by him are known. The head at the bottom left on the recto may be a self-portrait and it has been suggested that the two heads of a boy, one in red chalk, one in pen and brown ink, may represent his son Pieter aged about ten years old, an hypothesis which would date this drawing to circa 1607.