Peasant on a chair, seen from the back.

Drawing, pen and brown ink, grey wash, framing lines in black ink, 8,5 x 6,8 cm, laid paper, unsigned (laid down on old paper mount, attached to passe-partout, upper corners cut off, min. creases).

Under passe-partout.

Egbert Van Heemskerck (1634-1704) was a Dutch painter who worked in Haarlem, heavily influenced by the peasant scenes by Adriaen Brouwer and Adriaen Van Ostade. In the early 1680s he moved to London, where he found a new market for genre paintings. In its rendering and diagonal strokes for shadows and volume, the present sheet shows some affinity with the drawing of a pipe smoking peasant, in the Graphische Sammlung im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main (inv. 3548).
Ref. https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/36847.