Provenance
Gustave Rothan; sale, Victor Le Roy, Brussels, Dec. 19-21, 1866, lot 9
Etienne Le Roy, Brussels, 1866
Count Cornet de Ways Ruart de Vanêche, near Brussels, 1870
William T. Blodgett and John Taylor Johnston, New York, 1870-1, from whom purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1871
Literature
F. Harck, Berichte und Mitteilungen aus Sammlungen und Museen, über Staatliche Kunstpflege und Restaurationen neue Funde, Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, XI, 1888, p. 74
H. James, The Metropolitan Museum's '1871 Purchase', The Painter's Eye, 1956, pp. 64-5
K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, I, p. 130; II, p. 367 illustrated
W. A Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984, I, pp. 19-20; II, p. 27, pl. 11, as a 17th century copy after Jan Brueghel I
W. A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America, 1992, p. 20
