Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Ida Cohen (1853-1930; née Kuhn), Frankfurt;

Thence by descent to her daughter, Emilie Borchardt (1877-1948; née Cohen), Cairo;

Borchardt-Cohen’sche Stiftung, Schaffhausen, 1931;

By whom anonymously sold, Lucerne, Galerie Fischer, 24 May 1941, lot 1027 (as School of Rubens);

Where acquired by Charles Albert de Burlet (1882-1956), Basel;

Private collection, Zurich, by 1953 and until at least 1980;

With Noortman Master Paintings, Maastricht, circa 2001-2004;

By whom sold in association with Bob Haboldt & Co., New York, to a private collector, Switzerland, by 2004;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 9 July 2014, lot 55;

Where acquired by the present collector.

"Notices," in Bulletin Museum Boymans Rotterdam 4, no. 2 (October 1953), p. 61, reproduced fig. 28;

Olieverfschetsen van Rubens, exhibition catalogue, E. Haverkamp-Begemann (ed.), Rotterdam 1953, n.p., cat. no. 59, reproduced fig. 61;

M. Jaffé, "Rubens at Rotterdam," in Burlington Magazine 96, no. 611 (February 1954), p. 57, reproduced fig. 24;

J. S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens: A Critical Catalogue, Princeton 1980, vol. I, pp. 441-442, cat. no. 318; vol. II, reproduced pl. 315;

M. Jaffé, Rubens, Catalogo completo, Milan 1989, p. 306, cat. no. 918, reproduced;

H. Devisscher, in Rubens, exhibition catalogue, H. Devisscher and H. Vlieghe (eds.), Paris and Ghent 2004, p. 159, under cat. no. 84, reproduced fig. 84a;

H. Devisscher, The Annunciation, A New Oil Sketch For the Rubenshuis, Antwerp 2004, n.p.;

Singular Vision: Habolt & Co.'s Old Master Paintings and Drawings Since 1983, Amsterdam 2012, p. 96, reproduced;

H. Devisscher and H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part V (1), The Life of Christ before the Passion, The Youth of Christ, London and Turnhout 2014, vol. I, p. 38, under cat. no. 3, p. 39, cat. no. 3a; vol. II, reproduced fig. 11;

C. Kasper-Holtkotte, Orientalistische Netzwerke, Judenverfolgung und das Leben der Frankfurter Jüdin Mimi Borchardt, Berlin 2017, p. 45 note 163.

Basel, Kunstmuseum, long-term loan, prior to 1941;

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Olieverfschetsen van Rubens, 19 December 1953 - 14 February 1954, no. 59 (lent from a private collection, Zurich);

Antwerp, Rubenshuis, long-term loan, 2004 - 2009.