Joachim Anthonisz. Wtewael

Possibly Johan van Nellesteyn (1617-1677) and Hillegonda Pater (d. 1669), by 1671;

Possibly anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Phillipus van der Schley, Jan de Bosch, Jan Yver, Cornelis Sebille Roos, Roelof Meurs Pruyssenaar and Jacobus Vinkeles, 25 July 1804, lot 83 (“zeer fraai en uitvoerig ge penceeld en kragtig van coloriet”);¹

With Sabin Gallery, London, by circa 1950;

With Edward Speelman, London;

Probably with Wengraf, London, by 1956;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 19 March 1965, lot 37 (as “Uytewael” [sic]);

Where acquired by Arcade Gallery, London;

With H. Schickman Gallery, New York, by 1966;

Thereafter acquired by the present collector.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, long-term loan, 1984 and 1993-1995 (lent by Anne W. Lowenthal).

Art and Auctions: International Art Dealers and Collectors Guide 9, no. 196 (30 June 1965), p. 888, cat. no. 37;

A.W. Lowenthal, Around 1610: The Onset of the Baroque, exhibition catalogue, London 1985, p. 32, under cat. no. 6;

A.W. Lowenthal, Joachim Wtewael and Dutch Mannerism, Doornspijk 1986, pp. 103-104, 197, cat. no. A-24, reproduced pls. IX, 36;

A.W. Lowenthal, in Pleasure and Piety: The Art of Joachim Wtewael, exhibition catalogue, J. Clifton, L.M. Helmus and A.K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Washington, D.C. 2015, p. 9, reproduced p. 11, fig. 10; p. 134, under cat. no. 27.