Jan Mostaert

Possibly Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896);

Watelin collection;

By whom sold, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 17 November 1919, lot 70 (as attributed to Henri Met de Bles);

Sir John Frecheville Ramsden (1877–1958), 6th Bt, Bulstrode, Gerrards Cross, Bucks;

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 11 July 1930, lot 51, to J. Howard for £252 (as Joachim de Patinir);

Where acquired by a private collector, Switzerland;

Thence by inheritance to his wife;

By whom anonymously sold, Lucerne, Galerie Fischer, 16 November 1954, lot 1855;

Where acquired by Dr Frans Heulens, Brussels, by 1955;

J. Christiaens;

By whom sold (‘The Property of J. Christiaens, Esq.’), London, Phillips, 13 May 1986, lot 50;

Thereafter acquired by the father of the present owners.

E.R.M. Taverne, ‘Salomon de Bray's ontwerp voor de drinkhoorn van Het Loffelijke Gilde van St. Hubert te Haarlem’, in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 23, 1972, p. 271 n. 19;

J. Snyder, ‘The Early Haarlem School of Painting’, in The Art Bulletin, vol. 53, no. 4, December 1971, p. 451 n. 41;

C. Eisler, Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Paintings, Excluding Italian, Oxford 1977, p. 88 n. 4 (as attributed to Jan Mostaert and Joachim Patinir).

Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Keizer Karel en Zijn Tijd, 3 April – 30 June 1955, no. 86, reproduced fig. 14 (lent by Dr Frans Heulens, Brussels);

Mechelen, Comité stad Mecheln voor de Wereldtentoonstelling, Margareta van Oostenrijk en haar hof, 26 July – 15 September 1958, p. 8, no. 63 (lent by Dr Frans Heulens, Brussels);

Toledo, Palacio de Fuensalida, Pintura flamenca de tiempos de Carlos V, May–June 1969, no. 28.