Provenance
R.P. Roupell (L. 2234).
Nardus Collection, Suresnes; F. Muller, Amsterdam, 15 June 1926, lot 424 (as Rembrandt, to Van Wisselingh).
Anon. sale, F. Muller, Amsterdam, 25 October 1932, lot 36, illustrated (as Rembrandt, probably to an ancestor of the present owner).
Literature
W.R. Valentiner, Rembrandt. Des Meisters Handzeichnungen, Stuttgart Berlin Leipzig, 1925, p. 464, under no. 46 (as probably by Flinck).
E. Bock, J. Rosenberg, Die Niederländischen Meister, Berlin, 1930, p. 239, under no. 5291.
W.R. Valentiner, 'Zum Werk Gerrit Willemsz Horst's', Oud Holland, 1933, p. 241, illustrated (as Horst).
W.R. Valentiner, Rembrandt Handzeichnungen, Stuttgart Berlin, 1934, II, pp. X and XV, illustrated (as Horst).
W. Sumowski, 'Hitherto unknown draughtsmen of the Rembrandt School', Master Drawings, VI, 1968, p. 274, no. 1 (as Bol).
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York, 1979, I, p. 488, no. 232X, illustrated.