Jan van Noordt Amsterdam circa 1620 - after 1676

W. Sumowski, 'Jan van Noordt', in Hoogsteder Naumann Mercury, no. 3, 1986, p. 26, reproduced p. 25, fig. 25;
M. Díaz Padrón, M. Royo-Villanova, David Teniers, Jan Brueghel y los gabinetes de pinturas, exhibition catalogue, Madrid, Museo del Prado, 1992, p. 236, under no. 33, without comment;
D.A. De Witt, Jan van Noordt, Famous Painter and Historie Painter in Amsterdam, phD dissertation, Kingston (Ontario) 2000, pp. 195-6, cat. no. 10.

This painting was included in a cabinet picture by Hieronymous Janssens in a private collection in Madrid (see Díaz Padrón and Royo-Villanova, under Literature). Since Janssens' cabinet picture is unlikely to date from much after the middle of the century, this is likely to be an early work by Van Noordt, a view taken by Sumowski (see Literature) who, unaware of its inclusion in Janssens' work, dates it to the early 1650s comparing it with Van Noordt's classicizing half-lengths and portraits of this period.