Bartholomeus Maton

Frans van de Velde (1703-1774), Amsterdam;

His estate sale, Amsterdam, 7 September 1774, lot 64 (as "Matton (T.)");

Where acquired by "Ploos" for 650f;

Anonymous sale, South Kensington, Christie's, 15 December 2000, lot 158 (as Follower of Frans van Mieris I);

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 24 May 2016, lot 8 (as Bartholomeus Maton);

Where acquired by the present collector.

C. Dumas, "Enkele opmerkingen over achttiende-eeuwse 'vertaaltekeningen' met een uitstapje naar Jan Matthias Cok," in Delineavit et Sculpsit 48 (2021), pp. 21, 69 note 58, 70-71, reproduced fig. 57.

Affixed to the verso of the painting is a wax seal which has been identified as that of the coat-of-arms of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen branch, which shows the Hohenzollern family motto "Nihil Sine Deo." This branch is the one that inherited the Duchy of Sagan, which later passed to the Talleyrand family.