Jacob Ochtervelt

Pieter Willemsz. Calkoen (1712-1780), Amsterdam;

His estate sale, Amsterdam, Van der Schley et alia, 10 September 1781, lot 130;

Where acquired by "Coclert," for 60 florins;

Captain W.A. Hankey, by 1885 and until at least 1904;

With Dowdeswell, London;

Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson (1840-1929), 1st Baronet, London;

Offered at his sale, London, Christie’s, 6 July 1923, lot 78 (as dated 1708), where bought back by the owner;

Thence by descent to his daughter, Princess Ida Louise Robinson Labia (1871-1961), who in 1921 married Count Natale Labia (1924-2016), Cape Town, South Africa;

Thence by descent to thier son, Count Natale Labia (1924-2016), Hawthornden, Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 6 December 1989, lot 103 (as indistinctly dated 166[8]), for £352,000;

Where acquired by Newhouse Galleries, New York, and until at least 1994;

From whom almost certainly acquired by Dr. Hinrich Bischoff (1936-2005);

Thence by inheritance.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Winter Exhibition, 5 January - 8 March 1885, no. 84 (lent by Captain W.A. Hankey);

London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Robinson Collection: Paintings from the Collection of the Late Sir J.B. Robinson, Bt., Lent by the Princess Labia, 2 July - 14 September 1958, no. 49;

Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa, The Sir Joseph Robinson Collection, Lent by the Princess Labia, April 1959, no. 52;

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung Sir Joseph Robinson 1840-1929, Werke europäischer Malerei vom 15. bis 19. Jahrhundert, 17 August - 16 September 1962, no. 34;

Cape Town, South Africa National Gallery, long-term loan, 1962-1977;

Cape Town, South Africa National Gallery, Natale Labia Collection on Loan to the South Africa National Gallery, 1976;

Birmingham, City Museums and Art Gallery, long-term loan, 1977-1981;

London, Wildenstein, Twenty Masterpieces from the Natale Labia Collection, A Loan Exhibition in aid of The City of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Appeal Fund, 26 April - 26 May 1978, no. 8;

Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, long-term loan, 1981-1988;

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, long-term loan, 1988-1989;

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, long-term loan, from before 1993 until 2025 (inv. no. Dep. 833).

Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, exhibition catalogue, London 1885, p. 20, cat. no. 84 (as dated 1669, on panel);

M. Bryan, Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, G.C. Williamson, vol. IV, London 1904, p. 32;

A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, Vienna and Leipzig 1910, vol. II, p. 249 (as dated 1669);

A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912, London 1913, vol. II, p. 874 (as dated 1669);

W. Valentiner, "Jacob Ochtervelt," in Art in America 12 (1924), pp. 273-274, 281, 284, reproduced fig. 9 (as dated 1708);

T. Borenius, "Nachrichten: London," in Pantheon 6 (December 1930), p. lviii;

Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, H. Vollmer (ed.), vol. XXV, Leipzig 1931, p. 556;

E. Plietzsch, "Jacob Ochtervelt," in Pantheon 20 (July-December 1937), p. 372, reproduced p. 370 (as dated 1708);

The Robinson Collection: Paintings from the Collection of the Late Sir J.B. Robinson, Bt., Lent by the Princess Labia, exhibition catalogue, London 1958, p. 25, cat. no. 49 (as dated 1708);

E. Waterhouse, The Robinson Collection: Paintings from the Collection of the Late Sir J.B. Robinson, Bt., Now in the Possession of the Princess Labia, exhibition catalogue, London 1958, reproduced p. 23;

The Sir Joseph Robinson Collection, Lent by the Princess Labia, exhibition catalogue, Cape Town 1959, p. 15, cat. no. 52, reproduced pl. 23 (as dated 1708);

N. MacLaren, National Gallery Catalogues: The Dutch School, London 1960, p. 277 (as dated 166[8?]);

E. Plietzsch, Holländische und flämische Maler des XVII. Jahrh., Leipzig 1960, pp. 66-67 (as dated 1708);

Sammlung Sir Joseph Robinson 1840-1929, Werke europäischer Malerei vom 15. bis 19. Jahrhundert, exhibition catalogue, Zurich 1962, p. 25, cat. no. 34 (as dated 1708);

S.D. Kuretsky, "The Ochtervelt Documents," in Oud Holland 87, nos. 2-3 (1973), p. 130, reproduced fig. 5 (as dated 166[8?]);

Natale Labia Collection on Loan to the South Africa National Gallery, exhibition catalogue, Cape Town 1976, n.p., reproduced (as dated 1660);

Twenty Masterpieces from the Natale Labia Collection, A Loan Exhibition in aid of The City of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Appeal Fund, exhibition catalogue, London 1978, p. 21, cat. no. 8, reproduced (as dated 166[8]?);

S.D. Kuretsky, The Paintings of Jacob Ochtervelt (1634–1682), Oxford 1979, pp. 72-73, 141, cat. no. 45, reproduced fig. 51 (as dated 166[8]?);

Old Master Paintings, An Exhibition of European Paintings from the 16th Century to the 19th Century, exhibition catalogue, New York 1991, n.p., cat. no. 15, reproduced (as dated 166[8]);

Baroque, Das Magazin für barockes Lebensgefühl 1 (2018), pp. 4, 38, 42-43, reproduced.