Lentulus is quoted by Rembrandt’s student, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Inleyding tod de Hooge Schoole der Schilderkonst anders de Zicht baere Werelt ... (Rotterdam, 1678; reprint Utrecht, 1969), p. 105; trans. Gary Schwartz, Rembrandt: His Life, His Paintings (New York: Penguin, 1985), p. 284.