It is understandable why this robustly executed composition should have been attributed to the Haarlem artist Jan Philipsz. van Bouckhorst, but in the end the handling is more regular and less calligraphic then Bouckhorst's. Nor does the other proposed attribution, to Andries Both, seem convincing. There are, though, clear stylistic echoes of Goltzius and Matham, and the drawing most probably does originate from Haarlem, and date from the early years of the 17th century.