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Jan de Bray (ca. 1627–1697)
"Suffer the Little Children to Come unto me": Matthew 19:13–15; Mark 10:13–16; Luke 18:15–17
Brush and gray wash, over pen and brown ink, on paper; framing line in brown ink
Signed and dated at upper center, in point of brush and brown ink, JDB(in ligature)ray. / 1663.
10 13/16 x 11 15/16 inches (275 x 303 mm)
Purchased as the gift of the Markus Family in memory of Frits Markus; 1999.18
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Jan de Bray, active as a portrait painter in Haarlem from 1650 to 1689, retained the present sheet among a group of highly finished drawings that served as models in the de Bray family workshop. It depicts the artist's cousin, the Haarlem physician Pieter Braems, with his wife, Emerentia van der Laen, presenting their three eldest sons to Christ. The drawing served as the basis for a painting (Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem) that includes an additional portrait of the family's youngest son, born about 1664.

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