Lot Essay
The prototype of circa 1700/10, signed, on canvas, 78 x 95.5 cm, has been in the Gemldegalerie Staatlichen Museen, Berlin, since 1910 (J.W. von Moltke, Arent de Gelder - Dordrecht 1645-1727, 1994, pp. 42 and 85, no.51, plate XXVII).