Lucas van Valckenborch

M. Le Comte de Liel, Munich;

His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 24 April 1869, lot 98, for 405 French francs (preceded by its pendant Le Festin Seigneurial as lot 97, sold for 1,505 Fr. fr.);

Probably with Jules Féral, Paris, who is recorded to have also owned the pendant painting;

Henri de la Broise (1845–1902), Angers;

His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 10 June 1931, lot 23 for 9,200 Fr. fr. (preceded by its pendant Le repas des Seigneurs as lot 22, sold for 10,500 Fr. fr.);

With Galerie Mestrallet, Paris;

From whom acquired by the father of a private collector, 28 July 1931;

Thence by descent in the family until sold ('The Property of a Gentleman'), New York, Christie's, 19 April 2007, lot 54;

Where acquired.

A. Wied, Lucas und Marten van Valckenborch, Freren 1990, pp. 46–47 and 184, no. 91, reproduced.