Attributed to Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (Haarlem 1562-1638)

This drawing was attributed to Cornelis van Haarlem and catalogued as such in the 1976-77 exhibition. However, in his catalogue raisonné of the artist's paintings, prints and drawings, Pieter van Thiel rejected the attribution to van Haarlem and suggested that the drawing was possibly, but not necessarily, made by another artist from the Haarlem School, circa 1600 (van Thiel, op. cit., p. 492). A similar composition portraying the same man, according to van Thiel, by the same hand is in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem (inv. K 119; E.K.J. Reznicek, Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius, Utrecht, 1961, p. 486).