Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelinck (Amsterdam 1566-1612)

Traditionally attributed to Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (1562-1638) this drawing was recognised as by the versatile Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelinck by Holm Bevers who compared it to a Preaching of Saint John the Baptist in Munich executed in the same technique with similar treatment of the figures and the trees (op. cit., no. 58). These two drawings must date from circa 1601 as they are close to two signed and dated sheets in the Rijksmuseum (K.G. Boon, Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, The Hague, 1978, nos. 402-3).