Adriaen van Ostade

John Walter III, M.P. (1818-1894), Bearwood, Berkshire;

Alfred Beit (1853-1906), London;

Thence by inheritance to his brother, Sir Otto Beit (1865–1930), London;

Thence by descent to his son, Sir Alfred Lane Beit, 2nd Baronet (1903-1994), Russborough House, Ireland;

Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Sotheby's, 27 June 1962, lot 28;

Where acquired by E. Speelman;

Mr. and Mrs. Sidney J. van den Bergh-Bendix, Wassenaar, by 1965;

Thereafter acquired.

Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School, exhibition catalogue, London 1882, p. 26, cat. no. 116;

W. Bode, The Art Collection of Mr. Alfred Beit at his Residence 26 Park Lane, London, Berlin 1904, pp. 15, 55;

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 3, London 1910, p. 153, cat. no. 37;

W. Bode, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures and Bronzes in the Possession of Mr. Otto Beit, London 1913, pp. 16, 79, cat. no. 40;

Old Master Paintings from the Beit Collection, exhibition catalogue, Cape Town 1949, pp. 8-9, cat. no. 19;

17de Eeuwse meesters uit Nederlands particulier bezit: oude meesters uit de collectie van de heer en mevrouw Sidney J. van den Bergh-Bendix, exhibition catalogue, Leiden 1965, cat. no. 33;

A.B. de Vries, ‘Old Masters in the collection of Mr and Mrs van den Bergh’, in Apollo 70, no. 33 (1964), p. 357.

London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 2 January - 18 March 1882, no. 116 (lent by J. Walter, Esq., M.P.);

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Winter 1926 - 1927, no. 26 (lent by Sir Otto Beit);

Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa, Old Master Paintings from the Beit Collection, 1949, no. 19 (lent by Sir Alfred Beit);

Leiden, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, 5–30 August 1965, no. 33 (lent by Sidney J. van den Bergh-Bendix).