This rapid sketch of a young man with his arm outstretched is a preparatory study for the young man offering a wine glass in Van Mieris' painting, The Lute Player, signed and dated 1711, now in the Wallace collects ion, London (fig. 1).1

FIG. 1 WILLEM VAN MIERIS, THE LUTE PLAYER, LONDON, THE WALLACE collects ION

1. Ingamells, op. cit., no. P155