Gerrit van Honthorst

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 16 December 1927, lot 107 (as Judith Leyster);

Where acquired by Frank T. Sabin, Ltd., London;

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 26 January 1951, lot 137 (as Judith Leyster);

Where acquired by "Werner";

With Arcade Gallery, London, 1953-1954;

With David M. Koester Gallery, New York, by 1959 and until 1966;

Julius S. Held (1905–2002), Bennington, Vermont and New York, by 1966;

His estate sale ("The Scholar's Eye: Property from the Julius Held Collection, Part I"), Christie's, New York, 27 January 2009, lot 36;

Where acquired by the present collector.

London, Arcade Gallery, Mannerist and Baroque Painting at the Arcade Gallery, 18 November - 24 December 1953, no. 11;

Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, short-term loan, Summer 1977;

Worcester, Mass., Worcester Art Museum, 17^th Century Dutch Painting: Raising the Curtain on New England Private Collections, 15 September - 11 November 1979, no. 11.

Arcade Gallery, Mannerist and Baroque Pictures from Italy and Holland, exhibition catalogue, London 1953, n.p., cat. no. 11, reproduced;

J.R. Judson, Gerrit van Honthorst: A Discussion of his Position in Dutch Art, The Hague 1959, p. 250, cat. no. 200;

H. Braun, Gerard und Willem van Honthorst, Ph.D. dissertation, Georg-August Universität Göttingen 1966, p. 233, cat. no. 86;

B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford 1979, pp. 61, 240, reproduced fig. 143;

J. A. Welu, 17th Century Dutch Painting: Raising the Curtain on New England Private Collections, exhibition catalogue, Worcester 1979, pp. 44-47, cat. no. 11, reproduced;

B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, L. Vertova (ed.), Turin 1989, vol. I, pp. 52, 128, 242; vol. III, reproduced fig. 1306;

T. Döring, Studien zur Künstlerfamilie Van Bronchorst, Alfter 1993, p. 73 note 253;

J.R. Judson, "A New Honthorst Allegory: Can This be Love?" in Shop Talk: Studies in Honor of Seymour Slive, C.P. Schneider, A.I. Davies, and W.W. Robinson (eds.), Cambridge 1995, p. 128;

J.R. Judson and R. Ekkart, Gerrit van Honthorst, 1592-1656, Doornspijk 1999, p. 228, cat. no. 294, reproduced pl. 176.