Provenance
R.C. Johnson, Washington, D.C.
The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.; Sotheby's, New York, 4 June 1987, lot 62, as 'Manner of Rembrandt'.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 7 May 1992, lot 108, as 'after Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn'.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonne etc., London, 1915, VI, p. 345, no. 734.
U.S. National Museum Report, 1919, pp. 23-24, 147.
The American Magazine of Art, XL, no. 10, August 1920, p. 354, no. 14, December 1920, as 'Rembrandt'.
G.B. Rose, 'The Ralph Cross Johnson Collection in the National Gallery of Art', Art and Archeology, X, no. 3, September 1920, p. 95, ill. p. 88, as 'Rembrandt'.
Smithsonian Institution Report, 1920, pp. 679-690, plate XII.
E. Michel, Rembrandt, his Life, his Work and his Time, London, 1984, I, p. 272
Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project, A Corpus of Rembrandt paintings, III, 1989, p. 422, no. A144.