This picture is sold with a letter dated 30 July 1923 from Wilhelm von Bode, identifying it as an early work of Aert de Gelder on the basis of a photograph, and with a certificate by Gustav Glück, dated 19 July 1932, as Aert de Gelder.

The angel at upper right derives from Rembrandt's 'The Angel leaving Tobias and his Family' of 1637 in the Louvre