Maerten Ryckaert

With Spink and Son Ltd., London, by 1945 (as Monogrammist S.V.R., circa 1590);

From whom acquired by a private collector, 1945;

By whom sold anonymously (“The Property of a Family”), London, Christie’s, 10 April 1987, lot 19 (as Ryckaert and Frans Francken II);

With Galerie De Jonckheere, Paris, by July 1987;

Dr. Hinrich Bischoff (1936-2005), by 1992;

Thence by inheritance.

Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, on loan, from 1992 (inv. no. L 1119);

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum; Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Von Bruegel bis Rubens. Das goldene Jahrhundert der flämischen Malerei, 4 September 1992 - 20 June 1993, nos. 26.1, 114;

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Heiter bis wolkig, Naturschauspiele in der niederländischen Malerei, 1 June 2017 - 5 February 2018;

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, long-term loan, until 2025 (inv. no. Dep. 0840).

C. Stukenbrock, in Von Bruegel bis Rubens, das goldene Jahrhundert der flämischen Malerei, exhibition catalogue, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1992, pp. 299-300, cat. no. 26.1, reproduced;

C. Stukenbrock, in Van Bruegel tot Rubens, de Antwerpse Schilderschool 1550-1650, exhibition catalogue, E. Mai (ed.), Antwerp 1992, p. 244, cat. no. 114, reproduced p. 245;

J. Rees, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers, Gemälde vom XV. bis zum XVIII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, pp. 217-218, cat. no. 87, reproduced p. 219.