Provenance
R.C. Johnson, Washington D.C.
The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.; Sale, Sotheby's New York, 4 June 1987, lot 62, with ill. (as Manner of Rembrandt)
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné etc., 1915, VI, p. 345, under no. 734
U.S. National Museum Report, 1919, pp.23/24, 147
The American Magazine of Art, XL, no. 10, August 1920, p. 354 and no. 14, December 1920 (as Rembrandt)
G.B. Rose, The Ralph Cross Johnson Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Art and Archeology, X, no. 3, September 1920, p. 95, ill. p. 88 (as Rembrandt)
Smithsonian Institution Report, 1920, pp.679/690, plate XII
The Christian Science Monitor, October 26, 1921
National Gallery of Art, Catalogue, 1922, p. 57 (as Rembrandt)
The Washington Herald, November 4, 1923, with ill.
National Gallery of Art, Catalogue, 1926, p. 68 (as Rembrandt)
The Washington Star, August 7, 1938
E. Michel, Rembrandt, his Life, his Work and his Time, 1984, I, p. 272
Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, III, 1989, p. 422, under no. A144
