Follower of Sébastien Bourdon

Danby collection;

Thence by inheritance to George Affleck (1818-1891), Swinton House, Yorkshire;

From whom acquired, with the Swinton estate. by Samuel Cunliffe-Lister, later 1st Lord Masham (1815-1906), 1882;

Thence by descent and inheritance to the Trustees of the Swinton Settled Estates;

By whom sold ("The Trustees of the Swinton Settled Estates"), London, Christie's, 12 December 1975, lot 29 (as Attributed to Bourdon);

With Richard L. Feigen & Co., by 1981;

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 11 June 1981, lot 77, (as Bourdon);

With Richard L. Feigen & Co., Chicago;

From whom acquired by the present collector.

J. Thuillier, Sébastien Bourdon 1616-1671: Catalogue Critique et Chronologique de L'oeuvre Complet, Paris 2000, pp. 266-267, under cat. no. 123 (as a copy after Bourdon).

The present work is a copy after Sébastien Bourdon's work of the same subject at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Château Royal de Blois.