Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Probably G. Ahlemeyer, Berlin;

His sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 22 March 1909, lot 118;

With Dr F. Drey, London, before 1946;

On the art market, London, 1969;

Anonymous sale, Stockholm, Bukowskis, 22 April 1972, lot 143;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 29 March 1974, lot 23;

With Arthur de Heuvel, by whom presumably sold to

Charles de Pauw (1920–1984);

His posthumous sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 April 1986, lot 7;

Where acquired by the father of the present owner (offered Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, 9 April 1991, lot 19);

Thence by descent.

G. Marlier, Pierre Breughel le Jeune, Brussels 1969, p. 260, no. 16 (and possibly also no. 15);

K. Ertz, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere. Die Gemälde mit kritischem Œuvrekatalog, Lingen 1988/2000, vol. I, pp. 477 and 484, no. E [=Echt] 471*, reproduced.

Luxembourg, Luxembourg National Museum, on long-term loan since the 1990s.