Attributed to Cornelis de Man

Art market, London;

Maximilian Kellner (1869–1940), Moravia and Vienna;

His sale, Berlin, Rudolf Lepke, 3 December 1929, lot 30 (as Michiel van Musscher), for 2,300 Reichsmarks;

With John H. Folman, New York;

From whom acquired by Robert L. Lutz and Dorothy A. Lutz, New York, in March 1966;

By descent to their son, Timothy Lutz (d. 2023), North Lincolnshire;

By whom gifted to the present owners.

W.R. Valentiner, 'Pieter de Hooch: des meisters gemälde in 180 abbildungen mit einem anhang über die genremaler um Pieter de Hooch und die Kunst Hendrik van der Burchs', in Klassiker der Kunst, vol. 35, Berlin and Leipzig 1929, p. 257, reproduced (as Hendrik van der Burch[?]).

We are grateful to Martine Lambrechtsen for endorsing the attribution to Cornelis de Man on the basis of digital images.