Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp

Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1865–1931), Schloss Glienicke, Potsdam;

By whose Executors sold, Berlin, Ball & Graupe, 27–28 November 1931, lot 7 (as Benjamin Cuyp), for 400 Reichsmark;

Anonymous sale, Hamburg, Rudolph, 29–30 March 1951, lot 447 (as Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp);

Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 25 November 1976, lot 427 (as Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp);

Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005), by 1986;

Thence by inheritance.

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, on loan until March 2025.

C. Heße und M. Schlagenhaufer, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln. Vollständiges Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung, Cologne 1986, p. 23;

A. Büttner, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers. Gemälde vom XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, pp. 102–104, no. 39, reproduced in colour.

This painting has royal provenance, forming part of the collection of Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1865–1931), sold at his posthumous sale in Berlin in 1931.