School of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

M. Saint;
His sale, Paris, Bonnefons de Lavialle, 4 May 1846;
There purchased by Mr. Roehn;
From whom purchased by Mr. Jecker;
Thomas Jefferson Bryan, New York, until 1867;
By whom given to the New-York Historical Society;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 2 December 1971.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Hudson-Fulton celebration: catalogue of an exhibition held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1909, no. 84.

Catalogue of The Bryan Gallery of Christian Art from the Earliest Masters to the Present Time, New York 1853, cat. no. 124 (as by Rembrandt);
R. G. White, Companion to the Bryan Gallery of Christian Art, New York 1853, p. 76, cat. no. 124 (as by Rembrandt);
C. Hofstede de Groot, Onze Kunst, 1909, p. 176 (as by Rembrandt)
C. Hofstede de Groot, Catalogue of the Dutch Painters, London 1913, vol. VI, p.357, cat. no. 759 (as by Rembrandt, and signed "R");
Catalogue of the Gallery of the Art of The New-York Historical Society, New York 1915, p.75, cat.no. B-152 (as by Rembrandt);
W. R. Valentiner, Rembrandt Paintings in America, New York 1931, cat. no. 22, reproduced (as hung "in such a position that it is difficult to judge it");
A. Bredius, The Paintings of Rembrandt, London 1942, no. 158 (where described as, "at present hung in such a way that is impossible to judge");
K. Bauch, Rembrandt, Gemälde, Berlin 1966, p. 47 (as possibly Bol, circa 1635/40);
A. Bredius, Rembrandt, The Complete Edition of Paintings, revised by H. Gerson, London 1969, p. 560 (as by a weak Dutch painter; not by Bol);
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau-Pfalz 1983, Vol. III, p. 1964, under note 44 (as Anonymous Rembrandt School).

The canvas is lined. The surface of the work is in good condition. There is craquelure throughout. There are some minute abrasions around the edges of the oval. Under UV; evidence of scattered inpainting throughout.
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