Hendrick ter Brugghen

Possibly Verbrugghen, Delft, circa 1720;

Art market, Berlin, 1920s;

With Galerie Dr. C. Benedict, Berlin, by 1929;

Dr. Axel Wenner-Gren (1881–1961), Stockholm, by 1940;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 24 March 1965, lot 29, for £5,800 to Acquavella;

With Acquavella Galleries, New York, by 1965;

Private collection, United States;

With Noortman and Brod, London and Maastricht, by 1982;

Dr. Hinrich Bischoff;

Thence by inheritance.

Karlstad, Varmlands Museum, Old Master Paintings from the Collection of Axel Wenner-Gren, 2 April – 16 October 1940, no. 18;

Dayton, Dayton Art Institute and Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Hendrick Terbrugghen in America, 15 October 1965 – 30 January 1966, no. 12 (as datable to circa 1627);

Atlanta, High Museum, Masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age, 24 September – 10 November 1985, no. 15;

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Das Kabinett des Sammlers: Gemälde vom XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, 1993, no. 98;

Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, on long-term loan, August 1999–2025.

F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, vol. 35, Amsterdam 1949, p. 238;

B. Nicholson, Hendrick Terbruggen, London 1958, pp. 14 and 115, no. A65, reproduced plate 39b;

J.R. Judson, ‘Review of Benedict Nicholson, Hendrick Terbrugghen’, in The Art Bulletin, no. 43, 1961, p. 348;

W. Stechow, ‘Terbrugghen in America’, in Art News, October 1965, p. 61, reproduced pl. 8;

W. Stechow, Hendrick Terbrugghen in America, exh. cat., Dayton 1965, pp. 7 and 9;

‘Les cours des ventes’, in Connaissance des Arts, vol. 188, October 1967, p. 125;

B. Nicholson, ‘Terbrugghen since 1960’, in Album Amicorum J.G. van Gelder, L. Vertova (ed.), Turin 1973, p. 241;

B. Nicholson, The International Caravaggesque Movement: Lists of Pictures by Caravaggio and His Followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650, Oxford 1979, p. 100;

F.J. Duparc, Masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age, exh. cat., Atlanta 1985, pp. 44–45, no. 15, reproduced in colour p. 44;

Y. Kobiyashi-Sato in ‘The Attribution of the Tokyo Liberation of St. Peter to Ter Brugghen: A Reconsideration’, in Hendrick ter Brugghen und die Nachfolger Caravaggios in Holland, R. Klessmann (ed.), Braunschweig 1988, pp. 106 and 109 (as a studio copy after a lost original);

B. Nicholson, in Caravaggism in Europe, L. Vertova (ed.), vol. 1, Turin 1989, p. 194;

E. Mai, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers: Gemälde vom XV. bis XVII. Jahrhundert, Cologne 1993, pp. 248–50, no. 98, reproduced in colour p. 249;

L.J. Slatkes and W. Franits, The Paintings of Hendrick Ter Brugghen: Catalogue Raisonné, Philadelphia 2007, pp. 200–201, no. A80, reproduced p. 389, plate 79.