Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem

Rouvière Collection, Marseille, by c. 1773;

Sir William W. Knighton, 1st Baronet (1777–1836), Blendworth Lodge, Horndean;

His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 23 May 1885, lot 468, for 26 guineas, to G. Smith;

Henry Bingham Mildmay (1828–1905), 46 Berkeley Square, London;

His sale, London, Christie's, 24 June 1893, lot 6, for 280 guineas;

Where acquired by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London;

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Christie's, 8 July 1983, lot 12;

Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005), by 1986;

Thence by descent.

Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Holländische Malerei: Aus Berliner Privatbesitz, 6 April – 6 May 1984, no. 7;

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, on long-term loan, 1986–2025 (inv. no. Dep. 512).

J. Smith, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, London 1834, vol. V, p. 68, no. 203;

C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, London 1926, vol. IX, p. 119, no. 236;

J. Kelch, Holländische Malerei: Aus Berliner Privatbesitz, exh. cat., Berlin 1984, p. 20, no. 7, reproduced in colour p. 21;

C. Heße and M. Schlagenhaufer, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln. Vollständiges Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung, Cologne 1986, p. 12, reproduced p. 180, fig. 270.

ENGRAVED

Pierre Laurent (1739–1809), c. 1773.