Circle of Paulus Bril

Pierre Defer (1798-1870), Paris,

Thence by inheritance to Henri Dumesnil (1823-1898), Paris (L.739);

Dr. Einar Perman (1893-1976), Stockholm, by descent to the present owners

Laren, Singer Museum, Oude Tekeningen uit de Nederlanden. Verzameling Prof. E. Perman, Stockholm, 1962, cat. 24, fig. 5 (as Paulus Bril)

K.G. Boon, ‘Paul Bril’s ‘perfetta imitazione de’ veri paesi’, in Relations artistiques entre les Pays Bas et l’Italie à la Renaissance : Etudes dédiées à Suzanne Sulzberger, Brussels 1980, pp. 5-14 (as Paulus Bril);

L. Wood Ruby, Paul Bril. The drawings, Belgium (Brepols), 1999, pp. 133, 142 (note 205), 146 (note 351), as not by Bril