The drawing is closely related to an engraving from the series of Five Senses by Willem de Passe after designs by his father (Hollstein 31). The present drawing is in all likelihood a prima idea. The man’s head with his fashionable goatee beard and the gesture of his hand are identical, but the woman’s pose is slightly different, her left hand warding off the advances of her admirer in a gesture of shame. The drawing probably arose around 1600. One of Crispijn’s drawings showing couples dancing and playing music has a comparable female figure with an identical lace collar on the extreme left, while the gentleman on the right is also strikingly similar to the protagonist in the present work. See K.G. Boon, Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries in the Rijksmuseum, vol. I, p. 141, no. 390; vol. II, fig. p. 149. The present, sensitively treated, characteristic sheet testifies to the high quality of Crispijn’s draughtsmanship at this stage of his career.