Provenance
Servad; sale, Amsterdam, June 25, 1778, lot 108 (1,600 florins to Fouquet)
Poullain, Receveur général des Domaines du Roi (+); sale, Paris, March 15-21, 1780 (4,510 francs to Houdry)
Le Duc de Chabot et de La Mure, or Desmarets (?); sale, Paris, Dec. 17-22, 1787 (2,951 francs)
Jean-François Coupry Dupré, Greffier en chef du Parlement (+); sale, Paris, Feb. 21ff., 1811, lot 36 (3,032 francs)
Le Chevalier Sébastien Erard (+), Château de la Muette, Passy; sale, Paris, Aug. 7-14, 1832 (postponed from 23ff. April), lot 157 (unsold at 8,550 francs); Christie's, June 22, 1833, lot 33 ('A brilliant and powerful picture of the master'; 280 gns. to Swaby)
Henry Bevan, by 1834
Sir Edward J. Dean Paul, Bt. (+), of Cambridge House, Twickenham, and 7 St. George's Place, London; Christie's, June 27, 1896, lot 121 (760 gns. to Hope)
Charles Tyson Yerkes (+); sale, American Art Association, New York, April 5-8, 1910, lot 168
with F. Kleinberger, 1912 (seal on the stretcher)
John H. McFadden, Jr. (+); sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, Jan. 11, 1956, lot 35 (sold for $2,600)
Dr. Hans Wetzlar, Amsterdam; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, June 9, 1977, lot 129 (sold for Dfl. 110,000 = 25,581 GBP)
Literature
C. Blanc, Le Trésor de la curiosité tiré des catalogues de vente, 1857, II, pp. 11 and 396
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., V, 1834, p. 186, no. 39
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., IV, 1912, p. 500, no. 143
