Frederick Hendrik Kaemmerer

With Goupil & Co., Paris, 1878;

With M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 8 November 1878;

From whom acquired by John Jacob Astor III (1822–1890), 25 November 1878;

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 2 November 1995, lot 146;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 3 December 2003, lot 7;

Where acquired by the present owner.

G. Norman (ed.), Dutch Painters of the Nineteenth Century, Woodbridge 1973, p. 149, reproduced;

M. Jonkman (ed.), The Dutch in Paris 1789–1914, exh. cat., Bussum 2017, p. 134, no. 119, reproduced in colour.

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum and Paris, Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, The Dutch in Paris 1789–1914, 13 October 2017 – 7 January 2018 and 6 February – 13 May 2018, no. 119 (as Un baptême sous le directoire).

Le baptême (The Christening) depicts a young couple during the Directoire (the period after the French Revolution between 1795-1799) leaving a church following the christening of their child. This work was purchased by the American financier and philanthropist John Jacob Astor III in 1878. His nephew Jon Jacob Astor IV, died on the Titanic.

A photogravure was made by Goupil & Co., published by M. Knoedler & Co. in 1879, with original hand colouring.