On the basis of inscriptions attached to the reverses of the present and the following two lots, the purchaser of the present lot at the auction in 1800 can be identified as Jan Anthonie Jacobus Carré (born 1772). He was a descendant of the Carré family which counted the 17th Century painters Hendrick and Michiel Carré among its members. He married Catharina Wassenbergh (1774-1810) in Amsterdam in 1796. She was the daughter of Adam Langenhert Wassenbergh and Camille Johanna Maria Mazurel. Catharina was a relative of Elisabet and as the latter died childless, she must have been the daughter of Elisabet's brother or cousins. It is likely that Carré purchased the present lot as a present for his wife

We would like to thank the Stichting Iconographisch Bureau, The Hague, for their help in cataloguing the present and the following two lots

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