South German School, late 15th century

Art market, Spain (according to the 1904 sale catalogue);

Mathieu Henri Léon de Somzée (1837–1901), Brussels;

His posthumous sale, Brussels, Galerie Fievez, 24 May 1904, lot 593 (as Albert van Ouwater);

With Oskar Goldmann, Munich;

From whom acquired by Galerie Julius Böhler, Munich;

Where acquired by Han Coray (1880–1974) and Dorrie Stoop (1895–1928), Erlenbach and Zurich;

By whom offered at their sale, Lucerne, Theodore Fischer, 29 July 1925, lot 65 (as Aelbert van Ouwater), where unsold;

His (Han Coray's) sale, Berlin, Wertheim, 1 October 1930, lot 49 (as South German Master, c. 1450).

The historic attribution to Albert van Ouwater (c. 1410/15–1475), an early Netherlandish artist active in Haarlem, likely derived from the inscription on Saint Paul's sword.