Hendrick Goltzius

In the long-term possession of a family from Oxfordshire until sold anonymously ('a small country sale' according to Nichols 2013), near Oxford, September 1979;

Where acquired by Arcade Gallery, London;

By whom anonymously sold, London, Sotheby's, 16 April 1980, lot 39;

Where acquired by Willem Russell, Amsterdam;

Thence by descent.

New Brunswick, State University of New Jersey at Rutgers, The Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Haarlem: The Seventeenth Century, 20 February – 17 April 1983, no. 61;

Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age, 24 September – 10 November 1985, no. 25;

Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, long-term loan, 1985–2013;

Cleveland, Museum of Art, on loan, 2019–2024 (inv. no. 12.2019); see fig. 1.

L.W. Nichols, '"Job in Distress", a Newly-Discovered Painting by Hendrick Goltzius', in Simiolus, vol. XIII, nos 3–4, 1983, p. 182, n. 2;

F.F. Hofrichter, Haarlem: The Seventeenth Century, exh. cat., Rutgers 1983, p. 92, no. 61, reproduced in colour pl. 3;

F.J. Duparc, Masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age, exh. cat., Atlanta 1985, pp. 62–63, no. 25, reproduced in colour;

F.J. Duparc, 'Hollandse meesters uit particulier bezit in Atlanta / Dutch masters from private collections in Atlanta', in Tableau, vol. VII, no. 6, Summer 1985, pp. 40–45, reproduced in colour;

R.N. Kingzett, 'Dutch Treat for Atlanta', Apollo, vol. CXXIII, no. 287, January 1986, pp. 19–20, reproduced fig. 2;

S. Schama, Landscape and Memory, New York 1995, pp. 225–26, reproduced in colour pl. 25;

L.W. Nichols, The Paintings of Hendrick Goltzius, 1558–1617: A Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné, Doornspijk 2013, pp. 54, 65, 103, 106 and 113–15, no. A-18, reproduced in colour pl. 24;

K.T. Brown, Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 1300–1800, New York 2024, pp. 36–38, reproduced fig. 1.14.