Jan Lievens

Probably Adriaen van Leeuwen (d. 1645), Leiden, by 1641;

Art market, Paris, 1925;

Prince Wladimir Nikolaevitch Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff (1875-1941), Paris, by 1934;

Henry Taylor, Chicago, by 1960 and before 1967;

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 31 May 1990, lot 146 (as Jan Lievens);

Where acquired by the present collector.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Amsterdam, Rembrandthuis, Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered, 26 October 2008 – 9 August 2009, no. 2 (lent from a private collection).

I.I. Orlers, Beschrijvinge der Stadt Leyden, Leyden 1641, p. 376 (as Lievens);

H. Schneider, Jan Lievens, Haarlem 1932, p. 118, cat. no. 107 (as Lievens);

J.G. van Gelder, "De Schilders van de Oranjezaal," in Nederlandsch Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 2 (1948-1949), p. 162, cat. no. 80 (as Christiaen van Couwenberg);

K. Bauche, Die frühe Rembrandt und seine Zeit, Berlin 1960, pp. 114, 257 note 85, reproduced fig. 78, (as Lievens);

J. Bialostocki, in Kunstchronik 15 (1962), p. 82 (as Attributed to Lievens);

K. Bauch, "Zum Werk des Jan Lievens (I)," in Pantheon 25, no. 3 (May-June 1967), pp. 160-166 (as Lievens);

H. Gerson, in Miscellanea: I.Q. van Regteren Altena, 16/V/1969, Amsterdam 1969, p. 139 (as not Lievens, known only from an illustration);

B.A. Rifkin, "Rembrandt and his Circle, Part 2," in Art News 68, no. 6 (October 1969), p. 31;

H. Schneider, Jan Lievens: Sein Leben und seine Werke, R.E.O. Ekkart (ed.), Amsterdam 1973, p. 326, cat. no. 107 (as likely not Lievens);

A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, Stichting Foundation, Rembrandt Research Project, J. Bruyn, B. Haak, S.H. Levie, P.J.J. van Thiel, and E. van der Wetering (eds.), vol. I, The Hague 1982, pp. 457-458 (as plausibly Lievens);

W. Sumowski, Gemälde des Rembrandt-Schülers, vol. III, Landau and Pfalz 1983, p. 1775, cat. no. 1179, reproduced (as Lievens);

C. Tümpel, Rembrandt: Mythos und Methode, Königstein im Taunus 1986, p. 26-27 (as Lievens);

H. Gutbrod, Lievens und Rembrandt, Studien zum Verhältnis ihrer Kunst, Frankfurt 1996, pp. 94-95 (as not Lievens)

B. Schnackenburg, "A Young Rembrandt's 'Rough Manner': A Painting Style and its Sources," in The Mystery of the Young Rembrandt, exhibition catalogue, E. van der Wetering and B. Schnackenburg (eds.), Kassel and Amsterdam 2001, p. 103 (as Lievens);

M. Dekiert, "Musikanten in der Malerei der niederländischen Caravaggio-Nachfolge: Vorstufen, Ikonographie und Bedeutungsgehalt der Musikszene in der niederländischen Bildkunst des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts," Ph.D. dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm-Universität 2003, pp. 306-307, reproduced fig. 177 (as Attributed to Lievens);

R. van Straten, Young Rembrandt: The Leiden Years, 1606-1632, Leiden 2005, pp. 26-29, reproduced fig. 7 (as Lievens);

C. Vogelaar, in Rembrandt's Mother: Myth and Reality, exhibition catalogue, C. Vogelaar and G. Korevaar (eds.), Leiden 2005, p. 14, reproduced fig. 5 (as Lievens);

L. DeWitt, "Evolution and Ambition in the Career of Jan Lievens (1607-1674)," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland College Park 2006, pp. 3, 27, 44, 81-82, reproduced fig. 9 (as Lievens);

B. Schnackenburg, “Jan Lievens und Pieter de Grebber,” in Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 68 (2007), pp. 188, 198, 201-202, reproduced fig. 19 (as Lievens);

A. Wheelock, in Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered, exhibition catalogue, A. Wheelock (ed.), New Haven and London 2008, pp. 84, 289, cat. no. 2, reproduced (as Lievens,);

B. Schnackenburg, Jan Lievens: Friend and Rival of the Young Rembrandt, Petersberg 2016, pp. 32-33, 36, 45, 49, 51-52, 181-182, cat. no. 18, reproduced (as Lievens);

A. Libby, I. van Tuinen, and A. Wheelock, “Allegory of Hearing, Allegory of Smell, Allegory of Touch, from The Series of the Five Senses,” in The Leiden Collection Catalogue, A. Wheelock and E. Nogrady (eds.), 4th edition, 2023, https://theleidencollection.com/groups/rembrandt-van-rijn-allegory-of-the-senses/;

P. Bakker, "Rembrandt and the Emergence of the Leiden Art Market," in Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges, exhibition catalogue, J.N. Coutré (ed.), Kingston 2019, p. 82 (as Lievens).