Ferdinand Bol

Reinhard von Roeder (1697-1756), Burggrave of Württemberg;

From whom acquired by Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg (1728–1793), Schloss Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, circa 1748;

Transferred to the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1846 until 1958;

Heinz Kisters (1912–1977), Kreuzlingen, Switzerland;

John and Johanna Bass, New York, by 1963;

By whom donated to the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, in 1963 (inv. no. 63.12).

Inventarium über die herzogliche Malereigalerie in Ludwigsburg: 14 August 1767, manuscript inventory, p. 109, cat. no. 20 (as Rembrandt);

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1846 inventory (as Flinck);

O. Eisenmann, "Zur Stuttgarter Gemäldegalerie," in Kunstchronik 19 (16 February 1888), p. 299 (as Govert Flinck);

Verzeichnis der Gemälde-Sammlung im Kgl. Museum der bildenden Künste zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1891, p. 43, cat. no. 338 (as Govert Flinck)

Verzeichnis der Gemälde-Sammlung im Königlichen Museum der bildenden Künste zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1903, p. 67, cat. no. 267 (as School of Rembrandt);

K. Lange, Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung im Königlichen Museum der bildenden Künste zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1907, p. 129, cat. no. 267 (as School of Rembrandt);

T. von Frimmel, "Reisenotizen aus der Stuttgarter Galerie," in Blätter für Gemäldekunde, vol. III, Vienna 1907, p. 117 (as Horst or de Gelder);

K. Lilienfeld, Arent de Gelder, Sein Leben und Seine Kunst, The Hague 1914, pp. 205-206, cat. no. 184 (doubting attribution to A. de Gelder, possibly Eeckhout);

Verzeichnis der Gemäldegalerie im Kgl. Museum der bildenden Künste zu Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1917, p. 71 (as School of Rembrandt);

Katalog der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1957, p. 92 (inv. no. 446, as Flinck);

J.W. von Moltke, Govaert Flinck, 1615-1660, Amsterdam 1965, p. 152, cat. no. 411, reproduced (as Flinck);

D.R. van Fossen, The Paintings of Aert de Gelder, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University 1969, pp. 294-295, cat. no. X-11 (as "certainly not by de Gelder);

The John and Johanna Bass Collection at Miami Beach, Florida, Miami Beach 1973, p. 10, cat. no. 12 (as Flinck);

W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. I, New York 1979, p. 222, under cat. no. 99 (as Bol);

A. Blankert, Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680), Rembrandt's Pupil, Dornspijk 1982, p. 142, cat. no. 137, reproduced pl. 148 (as Bol);

W. Franits, "On the Subject Matter of Rembrandt's Etching, B.33," in Marsyas, Studies in the History of Art 21 (1981-1982), pp. 14-15, reproduced (as Flinck);

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. I, Landau/Pfalz 1983, pp. 301, 357, cat. no. 118, reproduced (as Bol);

P.C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America, Grand Rapids 1986, p. 153 (as Bol);

M.A. Russell, in Paintings and Textiles of the Bass Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection, Miami Beach 1990, pp. 30-32, reproduced (as Flinck);

J.W. von Moltke, Arent de Gelder, Dordrecht 1645-1727, Doornspijk 1994, pp. 194-195, cat. no. R111 (as Bol).