Joos de Momper

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 16 January 1925, lot 132 (as Joos de Momper), for £75–12s. to Baylis;

With St. James’s Gallery, London, 1959 (according to a mount at the Witt Library);

Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere (1925–98), London;

Thence by inheritance until anonymously sold (‘The Property of a Lady’), London, Christie’s, 2 July 1976, lot 77 (as Joos de Momper the Younger, the staffage probably the work of Jan Brueghel the Elder);

Where acquired by the father of the previous owner;

By whom anonymously sold (‘Property from an Important Private Collection’), London, Sotheby’s, 3 July 2013, lot 9 (as Joos de Momper);

With Johnny van Haeften, London;

From whom acquired.

K. Ertz, Josse de Momper der Jüngere, Freren 1986, pp. 247, 579–80, no. 413, reproduced p. 246, fig. 276 (the staffage either by Jan Brueghel the Elder or the Younger);

K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568–1625). Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde. Jan Brueghel d. Ä. als Mitarbeiter, Lingen 2008–10, vol. 4, p. 1591, no. 779, reproduced (the staffage possibly by Jan Brueghel the Younger).