The blessing of a woman.

Drawing, black chalk, 22,5 x 34 cm, laid paper with watermark (Heawood:1591, ca. 1690), unsigned (remargined, some creases and stains, old coll. number in pen and brown ink at the upper right corner).

Under passe-partout.

An unidentified biblical scene of a saint (or Christ?) blessing a kneeling woman in a large crowd. A composition sketch for a larger work rendered with elegant lines. The horizontal composition and crowded scene remind of Veronese and Poussin's work.