17th-century Follower of Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Major Torrian;

Thence by descent to his daughter, Mrs. Hall;

By whom given to Louise Thomas, 1864;

Anonymous sale, London, Robinson & Fisher, 7 July 1927, lot 161;

With Cassirer, Berlin, 1928;

Marquis de Talleyrand, Rome;

Edwin S. Bayer (1870-1929), New York;

Thence by inheritance to his wife, Laura, later the Countess Sala (d. 1961), Paris and New York;

Her estate sale ("The Countess Sala Collection"), New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 18 November 1961, lot 195 (as Follower of Rubens);

Where acquired by the John and Johanna Bass Collection, New York;

By whom donated to the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, 1963 (inv. no. 1963.010).

J.S. Held and J.A. Goris, Rubens in America, New York 1947, p. 50, cat. no. A53 (as Follower of Rubens);

The John and Johanna Bass Collection at Miami Beach, Florida, Miami 1973, p. 9, cat. no. 10 (as Peter Paul Rubens);

M. Russell, in Paintings and Textiles of the Bass Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection, M. Russell (ed.), Miami 1990, pp. 78-79, reproduced (as After Rubens);

H. Devisscher and H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part V: The Life of Christ Before the Passion, The Youth of Christ, London/Turnhout 2014, vol. I, pp. 142-144, under cat. no. 24b, copy 3; vol. II, reproduced fig. 94 (as a copy, possibly 18th century, after Rubens' presumably lost oil sketch).