Provenance
Count Rizea
with Dowdeswell, London
with Kleinberger, Paris
Marcel von Nemes, Budapest, 1913;
His sale, Paris, 17 June 1913, lot 62 (sold for 54,000 francs)
Helbuth Collection, Copenhagen
Anon. Sale, (=Herman Rasch), Christie's; 12 December 1930, lot 152 (as Rembrandt, and sold with certificates from Dr. Bode dated 1927; and Hofstede de Groot, dated 1928)
Literature
K. Madsen, Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, 1920, no. 62
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., VI, 1916, p. 53, no. 56
W.R. Valentiner, Klassiker Der Kunst, Rembrandt, Wiedergefundene Gemälde, 1921, p. XXIV, under no. 102, as "better" than the Bischoffsheim picture "and perhaps the original"
J. Rosenberg, Rembrandt: Life and Work, 1964, p. 371
K. Bauch, Rembrandt, 1966, pp. 47-8, under no. 248
A. Bredius, revised by H. Gerson, Rembrandt, 1968, p. 568, under no. 248
