The
recto of the present drawing, depicting a seated woman, seen three quarters from the back, corresponds very closely to a similar figure portrayed in Bloemaert's so-called "Cambridge Album",
1 representing
A sitting woman with a child.
Bolten has suggested that the Haverkamp-Begemann drawing "would have been the first incentive"
2 for the Cambridge Album drawing, which was subsequently engraved by Frederik Bloemaert as plate 95 of the
Tekenboek (Fig.1). Bolten goes on to compare the handling of the present sheet, both in its style and execution, to two further drawings by Bloemaert, the first a study of
The Madonna seated, the Christ child in her lap3 and the second
A kneeling woman,
4 previously in the Normand Collection.
1. For a more detailed discussion of the Cambridge Album see Bolten, op.cit., vol. I, pp. 362-397
2. Ibid., p. 306, no. 926
3. Ibid., no. 924
4. Ibid., no. 923