Hendrick ter Brugghen

William Buchanan (1781-1863), Edinburgh, by 1824;

Thence by descent to his granddaughter Alexandra Morewood, until at least 1966;

Roger T. Street, Bournemouth, by 1972 and until at least 1986;

With Newhouse Galleries, New York;

With Rafael Valls and Colnaghi, London, 1987-1990;

With Verner Åmell, Stockholm;

By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 10 January 1991, lot 77;

Where acquired by Umeda Art Boeki, Osaka;

With Hall and Knight, New York;

Luigi Koelliker, London, by 2003;

By whom sold ("Property from the London Residence of Luigi Koelliker"), London, Sotheby's, 3 December 2008, lot 29;

Where acquired by Cesare Lampronti;

From whom acquired by the present collector.

Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, long-term loan, 1981-1985;

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Darkness & Light: Caravaggio & His World, 29 November 2003 - 30 May 2004, no. 15 (lent by the Koelliker Collection).

B. Nicolson and C. Wright, "Georges de La Tour et La Grande-Bretagne," in Revue du Louvre 22, no. 2 (1972), pp. 137-138, reproduced fig. 2;

A. Ottani Cavina, "La Tour all'Orangerie e il suo primo tempo Caravaggesco," in Paragone 273 (November 1972), p. 11;

B. Nicolson, "Terbrugghen Since 1960," in Album Amicorum J.G. Van Gelder, J. Bruyn, J.A. Emmens, E. de Jongh, and D.P. Snoep (eds.), The Hague 1973, p. 241, under cat. no. E106;

B. Nicolson, "Caravaggio and his Circle in the British Isles," in Burlington Magazine 116, no. 859 (October 1974), p. 560;

B. Nicolson and C. Wright, Georges de La Tour, London 1974, pp. 27-28, 192, under cat. no. 56;

B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford 1979, p. 100;

B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, Turin 1979, vol. I, p. 194, cat. no. 1163 (version one); vol. III, reproduced fig. 1163;

A. Brejon de Lavergnée, "Le Caravagisme en Europe: À propos de la réédition du Nicolson," in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 122 (November 1993), p. 211;

J.J. Luna, Los músicos de Georges de la Tour (1593-1652): Alegoría y realidad en la pintura barroca francesa, exhibition catalogue, J.J. Luna (ed.), Madrid 1994, p. 73, under cat. no. 2;

W. Prohaska, in Darkness & Light; Caravaggio & His World, exhibition catalogue, Sydney 2003, pp. 108-109, cat. no. 15, reproduced;

J. Bikker, in The International Caravaggesque Movement: French, Dutch and Flemish Caravaggesque Paintings, Collezione Koelliker, exhibition catalogue, J. Bikker, G. Papi, and N. Spinosa (eds.), London 2005, pp. 30-33, reproduced;

L.J. Slatkes and W. Franits, The Paintings of Hendrick Ter Brugghen, Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam and Philadelphia 2007, p. 205, cat. no. A83, reproduced pl. 82;

J. Bikker, in Gian Enzo Sperone: Dealer/Collector, Turin 2019, pp. 184-186, reproduced.