Jean-Baptiste Pater

Alfred Charles de Rothschild (1842–1918), 1 Seamore Place, London, and Halton House, Buckinghamshire, by 1884;

Thence by inheritance to his nephew, Lionel de Rothschild (1882–1942), 46 Park Street, London, and Exbury House, Hampshire, until 1942;

From whom acquired by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, by 1946;

Nathan (1886–1958) and Frances Spingold (1881–1976), New York;

By whom posthumously sold (‘Pictures from the Collection of Nate B. and Frances Spingold of New York’), London, Sotheby’s, 8 December 1976, lot 63, for £40,000 to Agnews;

With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London;

From whom acquired by Samuel Thomas Fee (1920–1985), Oklahoma, in 1979;

His posthumous anonymous sale (‘Highly Important Paintings by Old Masters from an American Private Collection’), New York, Christie’s, 9 May 1985, lot 3, for $220,000;

With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, by 1986 until at least 1989;

From whom presumably acquired by a private collector;

By whom offered (‘Property of a Private Collector’), New York, Sotheby’s, 30 January 1998, lot 118, where unsold;

Subsequently acquired by Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005);

Thence by inheritance.

Fort Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, Old Master Paintings: Cranach to Corot, 23 January – 14 March 1982, nos 7 and 8;

Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, on loan until March 2025.

C. Davis, A description of the works of art forming the collection of Alfred de Rothschild, London 1884, vol. I, unpaginated, nos 67 and 68, reproduced;

F. Ingersoll–Smouse, Pater, Paris 1928, pp. 70, 73 and 197, nos 412 and 452, reproduced figs 180 and 181;

C. Wright, Old Master Paintings: Cranach to Corot, Fort Worth 1982, nos 7 and 8, reproduced;

C. Wright, Catalogue of Old Master Paintings from a Private Collection in the United States, V. Koshkin-Youritzin (ed.), London 1984, pp. 60 and 61, nos 13 and 14, reproduced in colour.