Hendrick de Meyer the Younger

Probably, Johann Georg Grambs, Frankfurt (1756-1817);
Probably, thence by bequest to the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, 1817 (inv. no. 588, with pendant);
Probably, from whom acquired by Filippo Benucci, Munich, by 1841;
G. Bretweiser;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 11 June 1981, lot 5; 
There acquired and thence by descent. 

Probably, C.F. Starck, Das Städel'sche Kunst-Institut in Frankfurt am Main dessen Stiftung, Fortgang und gegenwärtiger Zustand, Frankfurt 1819, p. 29, cat. no. 86;
Probably, C.F. Starck, Beschreibung des Staedelschen Kunst-Instituts in Frankfurt
am Main und der bis jetzt daselbst befindlichen Kunstgegenstände, Frankfurt 1823, p. 12, cat. no. 86;
Probably, Verzeichniss der Gemälde-Sammlung des Städelschen Kunstinstituts zu Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt 1830, p. 22, cat. no. 160;
Probably, J. Sander and B. Brinkmann, Niederländische Gemälde vor 1800 in Bedeutenden Sammlungen, vol. 1, Frankfurt 1995, p. 41;
M. Neumeister, Höllandische Gemälde im Städel Museum 1550-1800, vol. III, Petersburg 2010, pp. 283-284, reproduced fig. 316.

The panel is flat, stable and cradled on the reverse. It is comprised of a single piece of wood. This painting is in lovely condition and maybe hung in its current state. UV light reveals a couple of very tiny retouches in the sky, otherwise the painting is well preserved and has almost all of its original detailing intact. In a carved and gilt wood frame.
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This is probably the painting formerly recorded as inv. no. 588 in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt that served as a pendant to Hendrik de Meyer's Landscape with ruins, with a flock of sheep, in front of a farmhouse (fig. 1, inv. no. 589).  Although the related painting remains in the Städel Museum today, the present work was likely the one gifted by the museum to Filippo Benucci in 1841, an idea also proposed Neumeister in 2010 (see Literature).¹  In addition to being comparable in subject, composition, medium and dimensions, both works are signed and dated in the same manner.

1. Oil on panel, 33 by 44.6 cm, signed and dated lower left: Hc. Meyer: inv: fecit / 1785.