Manner of Rembrandt van Rijn

With Kunsthandel Katz, Dieren (inv. no. 5392, according to a label on the reverse of the panel and according to a card in the Goudstikker-Miedl archive);

From whom acquired by Alois Miedl, Kunsthandel Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 7 August 1940;

With Schantung Handels A.G, Berlin, 17 Aug 1940 - 15 July 1941;

With Alois Miedl, Kunstahndel Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam (all the above as Attributed to Rembrandt);

Possibly, sale, 1943, no. 239 (according to Ernst van de Wetering, see literature below, as part of the catalogue compiled in 1943 for the sale of the Goudstikker collection);

Acquired by the family of the current owner in the 1950s;

By descent to the current owner.

E. van de Wetering, Rembrandt’s Paintings revisited: A complete survey, reprint of vol. VI, Dordrecht 2017, p. 498, reproduced fig. 2 (as a reproduction of Rembrandt’s Bust of an old man of the Leipzig Collection.)

The present painting relates to a small portrait by Rembrandt in a private collection that was established in 2008 as the prime version after which several surviving copies are based.

A dendrochronology report from Dr. Peter Klein is available upon request stating a usage date of the panel from circa 1616 onwards.