The Challenge of the Pierides, from Ovid's Metamorphosis (Book V: 294-678), 16th?17th century, Pen and brown ink, brown wash. Framing line in pen and brown ink, sheet: 6 9/16 x 8 15/16 in. (16. 7 x 22. 7 cm), Drawings, Karel van Mander I (Netherlandish, Meulebeke 1548?1606 Amsterdam), Like his Italian predecessor Giorgio Vasari, Karel van Mander I is best known as an author, in his case of the first collection of biographies of Netherlandish artists, but he was also a highly skilled and wonderfully imaginative draftsman