Sir Anthony van Dyck

Rudolf Kann, Paris (1845–1905) (according to Held 1990);

Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber (1880–1959), Lugano;

E.D. Reber, Munich, 1925;

With Julius Sperling, Munich, 1930;

With Hermann Abels, Cologne, 1931;

With A.S. Drey, Munich;

Drey Sale, Berlin, Graupe, 17-18 June 1936, lot 12 (involuntary liquidation of assets);

Mrs J. Patten, England;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 4 April 1962, lot 35, for £4,000 to Agnew;

With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London;

N.N. Embiricos, London;

By whom offered, London, Christie's, 13 December 2000, lot 26, but withdrawn before sale;

With Thomas Gibson, London;

From whom acquired, 27 November 2001 (with the benefit of a settlement agreement with the heirs of A S Drey), by the late collector.

L. van Puyvelde, in Le Siècle de Rubens, exh. cat., Brussels 1965, pp. 62–63, under no. 61;

M. Jaffé, 'Van Dyck's sketches for his portraits of Duquesnoy and Van Uffel', in Bulletin des Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1967, pp. 160–61, reproduced;

O. Millar, 'Van Dyck at Agnews', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 110, 1968, p. 712 ('has the brilliance of the best of the Iconography sketches');

J.S. Held, The collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Flemish and German paintings of the 17th century, Detroit 1982, p. 30;

W.A. Liedke, Flemish Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1984, p. 59 (as attributed to Van Dyck);

S.J. Barnes, Van Dyck in Italy, doctoral diss., New York University, 1986, pp. 257–8, no. 42;

E. Larsen, The Paintings of Van Dyck, Freren 1988, vol. II, p. 171, no. 149, reproduced;

J.S. Held, in Anthony van Dyck, exh. cat., Washington 1990, pp. 339–41, no. 92, reproduced;

H. Vey, in S.J. Barnes, N. de Porter. O. Millar and H. Vey, Van Dyck, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London 2004, pp. 208–09, no. II.69, reproduced in colour.