I have yet to come across this amusing scene painted in an album, but evidently it was — and, interestingly, as early as 1607. The above listing is but one of the hundreds describing orphaned leaves auctioned by Weigel in Leipzig in 1864 in the du Rosey sale.

It probably looked much like this plate (below) engraved in his Philotheca Corneliana by Peter Rollos in 1619

The anecdote was first published in Otto Melander’s Joco Seria, Das ist Schimpff und Ernst (Lich 1605), early enough for the 1607 album painter to portray the scene.

Perhaps the du Rosey leaf may yet surface !