Gabriel Metsu

Jan Gildemeester Jansz.;

His posthumous sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley et al., 11–13 June 1800, lot 137, for 1,800 florins to T. Spaen;

Hendrik Muilman, Amsterdam, by 1804;

His posthumous sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley et al., 12–13 April 1813, lot 101, for 1,850 florins to Hodges;

Emmerich-Joseph, Duc d'Alberg (1773–1833), French Ambassador at Turin;

His sale, London, Christie's, 14 June 1817, lot 32, for 160 guineas;

With Alexis Delahante (1767–1837), Paris and London;

His sale, London, Phillips, 14 July 1821, lot 111, for 205 guineas;

William Beckford (1760–1844), Fonthill Abbey, Bath;

His sale, London, Phillips, 11 October 1823, lot 115, for 175 guineas to Emmerson;

With Artaria, Mannheim;

Edmund Higginson (1802–1871), Saltmarshe Castle, Herefordshire, by 1842;

His sale, London, Christie's, 6 June 1846, lot 220, for £504 to Rothschild;

Baron Lionel de Rothschild (1808–1879), Gunnersbury, Middlesex;

Thence by inheritance to Nathaniel, 1st Lord Rothschild (1840–1915), 148 Piccadilly, London;

Thence by inheritance to Walter, 2nd Lord Rothschild (1868–1937);

Thence by inheritance to Victor, 3rd Lord Rothschild (1910–1990);

His sale, on the premises at 148 Piccadilly, London, Sotheby's, 19 April 1937, lot 8, for £2,800 to Agnew's, on behalf of

Lionel de Rothschild (1882–1942), Exbury, Hampshire;

Thence by descent at Exbury to Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (1916–2009);

By whom sold to Tancred Borenius (1885–1948), 15 April 1942;

With W.E. Duits, London, in or before 1944, from whom acquired by

Enrico W. Fattorini;

Thence by descent until sold ('Property from the Fattorini Collection'), London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1996, lot 10, where acquired.

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Dutch art, 30 March – 10 May 1904, no. 360;

Liverpool, City School of Art, Exhibition of works by Dutch Masters of the seventeenth century, 22–29 September 1944, no. 9 (lent by Enrico W. Fattorini);

The Arts Council of Great Britain, Worthing, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery; Wakefield, Wakefield Museum and Art Gallery; Derby, Derby Museum and Art Gallery; Cardiff, National Museum of Wales; Norwich, Castle Museum, Dutch paintings of the 17th century, 1945, no. 19;

London, Royal Academy, Dutch pictures 1450–1750. Winter Exhibition, 22 November 1952 – 1 March 1953, no. 488 (lent by E.W. Fattorini).

R. van Eynden and A. van der Willegen, Geschiedenis der vaderlandsche schilderkunst, sedert de helft der XVIII eeuw, vol. III, Haarlem 1820, p. 446; 

J. Smith, Catalogue Raisonné... etc., vol. IV, London 1833, pp. 92–93, no. 60;

J. Smith, Supplement... etc., London 1842, p. 528, no. 40;

A descriptive catalogue of the gallery of pictures collected by Edmund Higginson, Esq of Saltmarshe, London 1842, pp. 48–49, no. 118;

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné... , vol. I, London 1908, pp. 287–88, no. 120;

E. Plietzsch, Review of the 1952–53 exhibition, in Kunstchronik, vol. 6, no. 5, 1953, p. 130;

S.J. Gudlaugsson, 'Kanttekeningen bij de ontwikkeling van Metsu', in Oud Holland, vol. 83, 1968, pp. 31 and 40;

Auction, vol. III, no. 6, February 1970;

F.W. Robinson, Gabriel Metsu, New York 1974, p. 33;

A. Lasius, Quiringh van Brekelenkam, Doornspijk 1992, p. 38;

J. Edwards, Alexandre-Joseph Paillet. Expert et marchand de tableaux à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1996, pp. 53 and 313, reproduced p. 53;

L. Stone-Ferrier, in A.E. Waiboer (ed.), Gabriel Metsu, exh. cat., Dublin 2010, pp. 78 and 94 n. 9;

A. Waiboer, Gabriel Metsu life and work, New Haven and London 2012, pp. 52–54 and 191–92, no. A–44, reproduced in colour p. 53.