 He was only twenty when he painted this scene, and the look of expectation on the girl's face shows a remarkable study of character.He seems to have abandoned painting well before the rampjaar of 1672, when, like many painters in Amsterdam, he fell onto bad times and took a position as "ziekentrooster" ("comforter of the sick"), a role as professional nurse and cleric, with the Dutch East India Company in 1676.He probably died soon after arrival in Indonesia, then the Dutch East Indies.