Provenance
Unidentified, inscribed 'Petrús Silviús' in brown ink verso, presumably 17th century.
Daniel Daulby (1745 or 1746-1798), Liverpool and Rydal Mount (Lugt 738); his sale, T. Vernon, Liverpool, 12-21 August 1799, 8th day, lot 64 (with an impression of NH 156; inscribed in brown ink verso with the Daulby numbers of both subjects: No. 248⁄249).
Probably William Roscoe (1753-1831), Liverpool (without mark; see Lugt 2645; inscribed -1/Ap 48 [?] in red crayon verso); his sale, Winstanley, Liverpool, 9-20 September 1816, lot 1008 (with two others) (£ 1; to Hatfield).
Thomas Miller Whitehead (1821-1897?), London (Lugt 2449, dated 1853).
Emile Galichon (1829-1875), Paris (Lugt 1058); his posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot (exp. Clément), 10-14 May 1875, lot 563 ('Magnifique épreuve du premier état, avec des parties claires dans les cheveux. Elle a de grandes marges.') (Fr. 200; to Galichon).
Louis Galichon (1829-1893), Paris (Lugt 1060).
Atherton Curtis (1863-1943) & Louise Burleigh Curtis (1869-1910), Paris (Lugt 94); probably acquired privately from the above; their posthumous sale, Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, 28 April 1955, lot 116 (CHF 1,100).
Private Collection, Argentina; acquired at the above sale.
With C. G. Boerner, Leipzig (with their stocknumber 9078 in pencil verso); acquired from the above; their catalogue, Neue Lagerliste 62 (1973), no. 40.
Jan A. Ahlers (1934-2013), Herford, Westphalia (without mark and not in Lugt); acquired from the above; his sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 2 June 1977, lot 143 (to Boerner).
With C. G. Boerner, Leipzig (with their stocknumber 9803 in pencil verso).
Private Collection, USA; Christie's, London, 28 November 1989, lot 101a (£ 52,800; to Boerner for Ritman).
Joseph R. Ritman (b. 1941), Amsterdam (not in Lugt); acquired at the above sale; his sale, A Collection of Etchings by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), presented by Artemis Fine Arts and Sotheby's, London, no. 102 ($ 150,000).
Dr. S. William Pelletier (1924-2004), Athens, Georgia (Lugt 4193, stamped and inscribed in pencil with his date of acquisition: 2002 2-12.1); acquired from Artemis; his posthumous sale, The Dr. S. William Pelletier Collection of Prints, Sotheby's, London, 2 December 2004, lot 56.
Sam Josefowitz (Lugt 6094); acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bartsch, Hollstein 268; Hind 151; New Hollstein 164 (this impression cited and described)
Stogdon 110
D. de Hoop Scheffer, Petrus Sylvius par Rembrandt, in: Liber amicorum Karel G. Boon, Amsterdam, 1974, p. 96-101.
E. Hinterding, Rembrandt Etchings from the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 2008, p. 470.
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