Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Possibly Floris Soop (1604–1657), Kloveniersburgwal, Amsterdam;

Possibly inherited then by Petrus Scriverius (1576–1660), Leiden;

Possibly allocated by 1661 to his son Wilhelmus Scriverius (1608–1661), Herengracht, Amsterdam;

Presumably by whom sold, Amsterdam, de Keizierskroon, 8 August 1663;

Private collection, West Berlin, 1954;

Thence by descent until anonymously sold, Cologne, Lempertz, 17 May 2014, lot 1174 (as Netherlandish School, mid-17^th century);

When acquired for €1.5m on behalf of the present owner.

Leiden, Museum De Lakenhal, Jonge Rembrandt, 2 November 2019 – 9 February 2020, no. 65;

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Young Rembrandt, 27 February – 7 June 2020 (curtailed by COVID-19, but reopened and extended to 1 November 2020), no. 65.

R. van Leeuwen, 'Rembrandt’s “Suffer little children to come unto me.” Some preliminary notes on the iconography of a newly discovered painting,’ in Een is nodig. Single Contributions of the Karel van Mander Academy, Presikhaaf 2019 (first published 2018), online (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rembrandts-suffer-little-children-come-unto-me-some-rudie-van-leeuwen/);

C. Vogelaar, in Young Rembrandt, C. Brown, A. Van Camp & C. Vogelaar (eds), exh. cat ., Oxford 2019, p. 168, no. 65, reproduced, also p. 204, under nos 129–30 (circa 1627– 28);

C.T. Seifert, ‘Young Rembrandt and beyond’, The Burlington Magazine, September 2020, p. 786.