Attributed to Pieter Thijs

With Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1894;

A.M. Beyers, Pittsburgh;

With Nicholas M. Acquavella Galleries, New York;

From whom acquired by Louis Eychenne (1894-1973), Mexico, 1943;

Thence by descent to the present collectors.

Mexico City, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Cuatro Siglos de Pintura Europea, October 1943, no. 43 (lent by Acquavella Galleries);

Mexico City, Instituto Anglo-Mexicano de Cultura, Pintura británica en México, siglos XVI al XIX, 1963, no. 5.

One Hundred Paintings of Old Masters Belonging to the Sedelmeyer Gallery, 1894, p. 14, cat. no. 9, reproduced (as Van Dyck);

S.J. Barnes, Van Dyck in Italy: 1621-1628, Ph.D. dissertation, New York University 1986, pp. 279-280, cat. no. 53, reproduced fig. 194 (as Van Dyck, but known only from a photograph);

E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony Van Dyck, Freren 1988, vol. II, pp. 198-199, cat. no. 494, reproduced (as Van Dyck, circa 1630-1632);

J. Douglas Stewart, "Pieter Thys (1624-77): Recovering a 'scarcely known' Antwerp painter," in Apollo 145, no. 420 (February 1997), pp. 41-42, reproduced fig. 11 (as Pieter Thys, circa 1650);

S.J. Barnes, in Van Dyck, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, S. Barnes et al. (eds), New Haven/London 2004, p. 181, under cat. no. II.35 (as Pieter Thys);

F. García Oria and V. Soto Caba, "Entre Francia y México: la colección de Louis Eychenne," in Colecciones, expolio, museos y mercado artístico en España en los siglos XVIII y XIX, exhibition catalogue, A. Alzaga Ruiz (ed.), Madrid 2011, p. 378.