Workshop of Jan Brueghel the Younger

Dr M. Gloger;

By whom anonymously sold (‘The Property of a German Corporation’), London, Sotheby's, 19 April 1972, lot 24 (as Jan van Kessel), for £6,400;

Where acquired by Leonard Koetser, London;

Private collection, England;

With De Jonckheere, Paris, by November 1994;

From whom acquired by the Baron and Baronne de Giey;

Thence by descent.

T. Crombie, ‘Dutchmen in Duke Street’, in Apollo, vol. 96, no. 129, November 1972, p. 441, reproduced fig. 1 (as Jan Brueghel the Younger);

E. Greindl, Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVII^e siècle, Sterrebeek 1983, p. 368, no. 111 (as Jan van Kessel the Elder);

D. Toussaint, Essai de catalogue de l’œuvre peint de Jan van Kessel le vieux 1626–1679, Brussels 1993–94, vol. I, p. 34, no. 22, vol. II, reproduced no. 22 (as Jan van Kessel the Elder).