Adriaen van Ostade

Sickesz Collection, De Cloese Castle, Lochem;

Willem Pieter Hubert (1853–1908), Rotterdam;

By inheritance to his widow, Johanna Anetta Hubert, née Pluijgers (1856–1945), The Hague;

By descent to her daughter, Arnoldina Fanny Hubert (1883–1947) and her husband, Ulrich Willem Frederik van Panhuys (1878–1927);

Thence by descent to J.A.Z. van Panhuys, Leiden, by 1974;

Private collection, California;

By whom sold anonymously ('From a Private Collection, California'), New York, Christie's, 3 June 1987, lot 101;

With Heide Hübner, Würzburg, by 1988;

Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005), by 1993;

Thence by descent.

The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Oude Kunst uit Haagsch Bezit, 12 December 1936 – 31 January 1937, no. 152;

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, on long-term loan, until 2025 (inv. no. Dep. 564).

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, London 1910, vol. III, p. 168, no. 88;

Oude Kunst uit Haagsch Bezit, exh. cat., The Hague 1936, p. 39, no. 152;

Tableau, vol. X, no. 4, February 1988, p. 31, reproduced in colour;

S. Körffer, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers: Gemälde vom XV. Bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, p. 198, no. 79, reproduced in colour p. 197.