Salomon Van Ruysdael

M. Laurent-Richard, Neuilly;

His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 23-25 May 1878, lot 108, for 4,950 francs;

Count Paul Demidoff (1839-1885), Villa di San Donato, Florence;

His sale on the premises, Pillet, Le Roy, Mannheim, 15-17 March 1880, lot 1106, for 6,100 lire;

Possibly J.F. Du Sart;

Possibly his estate sale, Brussels, J. & A. Le Roy, 26–28 June 1884, lot 129;

Comtesse de Labadye, Paris;

With François Kleinberger, Paris, 1903;

Jonckheer Ch. van de Poll, Haarlem, by 1915;

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 7 November 1978, lot 92, for 740,000 guilders;

British Rail Pension Fund, London, probably by 1981;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 5 July 1995, lot 32;

Where acquired by Robert Noortman, London;

From whom acquired by Michel David-Weill (1932-2022), New York and Paris;

With Robert Noortman, London;

From whom acquired by the present collector, after 2004.

G.D. Gratama, "Tentoonstelling van Oude kunst uit het bezit van bewoners van Haarlem en omstreken," in Onze Kunst 28 (1915), reproduced p. 77;

W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin 1975, p. 77, cat. no. 57 (as signed but not dated);

W. Liedtke, Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. II, New Haven and London 2007, p. 809 note 11, under cat. no. 185 (with incorrect date of 1650).

London, Geffrye Museum, long-term loan, 1981 - 1995.