Gerard ter Borch

Possibly with J.B. van den Bergh (d. 1833), Amsterdam;

Possibly his posthumous sale, Amsterdam, J. de Vries, A. Brondgeest, E.M. Engelberts and C.F. Roos, 15 July 1833, lot 242;

Martin Rikoff, Paris, by 1903;

By whom sold, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 4 December 1907, lot 22 (as possibly a portrait of the artist’s wife), for 43,100 French francs to Kleinberger;

Where acquired by F. Kleinberger Galleries, Paris;

From whom acquired by Martin (1850–1918) and Eleonore (née Kann; 1852–1927) Bromberg, Hamburg, 22 February 1908;

Thence by descent to their son Henry (1878–1971) and his wife Hertha (née Calmon; 1899–1964) Bromberg, Hamburg, in 1927;

From whom acquired by F. Kleinberger Galleries (Allen Loebl), Paris, by December 1938;

Half-interest acquired by Wildenstein & Co., London, 1938–44;

From whom acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1945 (inv. no. 1542/4);

Restituted to the heirs of Henry and Hertha Bromberg, 2025.

London, Guildhall Art Gallery, Exhibition of a Selection of Works by Early & Modern Painters of the Dutch School, 1903, no. 178;

Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, and St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, European Painting 16th to 19th Centuries and Australian Painting of the 19th Century, 10 September – 18 February 1980, no. 34.

A.G. Temple, Catalogue of the Exhibition of a Selection of Works by Early & Modern Painters of the Dutch School, exh. cat., London 1903, p. 143, no. 178;

Kunstgegenstände im Hause des Herrn Martin Bromberg, Hamburg 1913, no. 20;

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné..., vol. V, London 1913, pp. 119–20, no. 384

S.J. Gudlaugsson, Katalog der Gemälde Gerard ter Borchs, The Hague 1959–60, vol. I, p. 324, no. 178, reproduced vol. II, p. 180, no. 178;

U. Hoff, European Paintings Before 1800 in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1995, pp. 18–19, reproduced in colour (as Gerard ter Borch and Studio);

H. Guratsch (ed.), Maximilian Speck von Sternburg, Leipzig 1998, pp. 317-18, under nos I/91 & 2.