Follower of Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael

With Victor Spark, New York, 1958 - 1973;
Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland, 1973;
By whom given to The Cleveland Museum of Art in 1974 [acc. no. 74.106].

Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum; San Diego, The Fine Arts Gallery, The Young Rembrandt and His Times, 14 February - 23 March 1958, no. 93 (as attributed to Joachim Wtewael);
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review, March 1975, no. 52.

A.W. Lowenthal, The Paintings of Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael, Columbia University Ph.D. Thesis, New York 1975, no. C-28, p. 383 (under Copies after Joachim Wtewael);
Cleveland Museum of Art, Handbook, Cleveland 1978, reproduced p. 123;
Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of Paintings:  Part Three.  European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries, Cleveland 1982, pp. 293-295, no. 131, reproduced;
A. W. Lowenthal, Joachim Wtewael and Dutch Mannerism, Doornspijk 1986, no. C-36, p. 168 (as Wrongly Attributed to Wtewael);
A. Chong, European & American Painting in The Cleveland Museum of Art:  A Summary Catalogue, Cleveland 1993, p. 262, reproduced (as Follower of Wtewael).

The canvas is lined. The surface of the work is in excellent condition. There is faint craquelure throughout the piece. Under UV; evidence of inpainting along the top and bottom edges.
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