Jacob van Huchtenburg

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 16 April 1980, lot 32 (as Jan van Huchtenburgh);

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 15 January 1985, lot 234 (as Jan van Huchtenburgh);

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

Thence by inheritance.

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, and Utrecht, Centraal Museum, I Bamboccianti. Niederländische Malerrebellen im Rom des Barock, 28 August – 17 November 1991, and 6 December 1991 – 9 February 1992, no. 17.1;

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, on loan, 1986 – March 2025.

H. Christian and M. Schlagenhaufer, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln. Vollständiges Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung, Cologne 1986, pp. 38 and 198, fig. 335 (as Jan van Huchtenburgh);

S. Polke, in I Bamboccianti. Niederländische Malerrebellen im Rom des Barock, D.A. Levine and E. Mai (eds), exh. cat., Cologne and Utrecht 1991–92, pp. 182–83, no. 17.1, reproduced in colour;

E. von Watzdorf, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers: Gemälde vom XV. bis XVII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, pp. 138–40, no. 54, reproduced in colour.

A comparable, larger version of this view of Piazza Colonna by Jacob van Huchtenburg painted on canvas and dated 1674, is in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel.¹

¹ Inv. no. GK 366; oil on canvas, 104 x 118 cm.; https://altemeister.museum-kassel.de/32805/