Pieter Janssen (Jansz.) Amsterdam 1612 - 1672

Joseph van Haecken (L.2516);
Thomas Hudson (L.2432);
sale, J.G. et al, Amsterdam, 20 December 1927, lot 206, illus. (as Lastman);
Bernard Houthakker (L.1272), his sale, in these Rooms, 17-18 November 1975, lot 82 (as Lastman, to the present owners)

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, De verzameling van Bernard Houthakker, 1964, cat.49 (as Lastman)

R. Hamann, 'Hagars Abschied bei Rembrandt und im Rembrandt-Kreise,' Marburger Jahrbuch fur Kunswissenschaft, 8/9, 1936, p. 482, fig.16 (as Lastman);
W. Sumowski, 'Zeichnungen von Lastman und aus dem Lastman Kreis,' Giessener Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte, vol.III, 1975, n.57 (as Lastman)

Though previously published as a drawing by Pieter Lastman, connected with that artist's painting of 1612 in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, this drawing is typical of the style of the rare Amsterdam glass-painter and draughtsman Pieter Janssen, as first described and analysed by Marijn Schapelhouman in 1985 (see M. Schapelhouman, 'Tekeningen van Pieter Jansz., 'Konstig Glasschrijver',' Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, vol.33, no.2 (1985), pp.71-92).  Lastman's painting must have been an important source of inspiration for Janssen, as the latter also made another related drawing, in reverse but otherwise similarly composed (also formerly in the Houthakker collection; see Schapelhouman, op.cit., p.86, fig.20).