Leonaert Bramer

Art market, England;

With M.J.W. van der Haagen, The Hague, by 1918;

C.W. Matthew, Breukelen;

By whom sold, Amsterdam, Mak van Waay, 4 November 1958, lot 3 (alongside its pendant);

With Han Jüngeling, The Hague, 1958;

With H.H. Cerat, Lausanne, from July 1966;

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

Thence by inheritance.

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

H. Wichmann, Leonhaert Bramer. Sein Leben und seine Kunst, Leipzig 1923, p. 100–01, no. 28a;

C. Heße and M. Schlagenhaufer, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln. Vollständiges Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung, Cologne 1986, pp. 15 and 182, reproduced fig. 278;

C. Felgner, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers. Gemälde vom XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, pp. 87–89, reproduced in colour;

M. Plomp, in Leonaert Bramer 1596–1674: Ingenious painter and draughtsman in Rome and Delft, M. Plomp and J.T.B. Goldsmith (eds), Zwolle 1994, p. 280, no. 28a.

The pendant to this painting, Salomon kneeling in the Temple, is in The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.¹

¹ Inv. no. 1965.1519; oil on copper, 21.6 x 27.2 cm.; Plomp 1994, p. 280 no. 28b.