Johannes Coesermans

Possibly private collection sale, Brussels, De Vos, 30 June 1755, lot 158 ("Une petite piéce noire & blanche");

Probably private collection, Bordeaux;

Probably their anonymous sale, Bordeaux, Martin, 4 August 1818, lot 16 ("L'intérieur d'une église avec figures, peinte en grisaille. L'architecture est traitée avec beaucoup d'art. 19 p. de l. 16 p. de h.");

Private collection, by 1970;

With Kunsthandel Schlichte Bergen, Amsterdam, by 1986;

With Johnny Van Haeften, London, 1989;

From whom acquired by the late collector, 1990.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vermeer and the Delft School, 8 March - 27 May 2001, no. 13.

R. Ruurs, in Ten Years of Kunsthandel Drs. John H. Schlichte Bergen 1979–1989, Amsterdam 1989, p. 26, reproduced;

W. Liedtke, "Johannes Coesermans, Painter of Delft," in Oud Holland 106, no. 4 (1992), pp. 192, 194, 196, reproduced fig. 4;

W. Liedtke, A View of Delft: Vermeer and His Contemporaries, Zwolle 2000, p. 139, reproduced fig. 183;

W. Liedtke, in Vermeer and the Delft School, exhibition catalogue, New York 2001, W. Liedtke (ed.), pp. 111, 128-129, 160, 238-239, cat. no. 13, reproduced.