Provenance
Comte Cavens, Brussels, 1915
with Goudstikker, Amsterdam
Dr. Hans Wetzlar, Amsterdam
Dr. E. I. Shapiro, London; (+) Christie's, 30 Nov. 1979, lot 6
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., VI, 1916, p.503, no.96, 'It is attributed to Rembrandt, but seems to the author to be by Maes'
W. R. Valentiner, Nicolaes Maes, 1924, pp.11-12 and pl.9 H. Wichmann, Review of W. R. Valentiner's 'Nicolaes Maes', Cicerone, XVI, 1924, p.778
A. Bredius, The Burlington Magazine, XLVI, 1925, p.143
W. Stechow, Review of W. R. Valentiner's 'Nicolaes Maes', Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen, 1925, p.149
H. Wichmann, Nicolaes Maes, in the Thieme-Becker Künstler-Lexikon, XXIII, 1929, pp.546-7
E. Plietzch in W. von Bode, Die Meister der holländischen und
flämischen Malerschulen, ed. E. Plietzsch, 1958, p.77, note 1
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, III, 1983, p.1965, no.64, illustrated p.1985
Exhibited
Dordrecht, Museum, Nicolaes Maes, 1934, no.1 London, Matthiesen, Rembrandt's Influence in the 17th Century,
1953, no.50, illustrated
