Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne

Jan Enschede;

His sale, Haarlem, Vinne, 16 April 1776, lot 50;

Hollandt Collection, Braunschweig, by 1843;

Dr. Martin Schubart, Munich, by 1894:

His sale, Munich, Helbing, 23 October 1899, lot 78;

Private collection, New York;

By whom anonymously sold ("Property of a Private Collection, New York"), New York, Sotheby's, 17 January 1985, lot 56;

Maida and George Abrams Collection;

From whom acquired by the present collectors.

C. Hofstede de Groot, Sammlung Schubart, Eine Auswahl von Werken alter Meister, Munich 1894, p. 17;

A. Plokker, Adriaen Pietersz. Van de Venne (1589-1662): de Grisaille met spreukbanden, Leuven 1984, pp. 26-27, cat. no. 2, reproduced;

M. Royalton-Kisch, Adriaen van de Venne's Album in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, London 1988, p. 122, cat. no. 100;

L. J. Bol, Adriaen van de Venne, Painter and Draughtsman, Doornpijk 1989, pp. 100, 144;

P. C. Sutton, Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibition catalogue, Boston 1992, pp. 54, 216, cat. no. 152, reproduced pl. 62;

M. van Vaeck (ed.), Tafereel van de belacchende werelt (Den Haag, 1635), Ghent 1994, pp. 670-672, 775;

I.A. Cartwright, in Story & Symbol: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Collection of Dr. Gordon and Adele Gilbert, exhibition catalogue, J. Hanson (ed.), St. Petersburg, Florida 2011, pp. 46-47, cat. no. 15.

Munich, Königlische Kunstausstellungs-Gebaude, Sammlung hervorragender alter Meisterwerke, 1895, no. 72;

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 17 June 16 August 1992, no. 152;

St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, Story & Symbol: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Collection of Dr. Gordon and Adele Gilbert, 17 September - 4 December 2011, no. 15.