? commissioned from the artist by Gerard Reynst (1599-1658), Amsterdam;{According to the inventory of Van Leyden, Album 40, fol. 1, under no. 8 (‘De origineele Tekening met wit gehoogt uijt het Cabinet van Reijnst, zeer fraaij’).} ? his widow, Anne Reynst, née Van Schuyt (1605-1671), Amsterdam; ? sale, ‘Cabinet de Reinst’, Amsterdam, 29 May 1670;{Logan 1979, pp. 90-91.} …; collection Pieter Cornelis, Baron van Leyden (1717-88), Leiden;{According to an inscription on the drawing and his inventory, see previous note.} his daughter, Françoise Johanna Gael, née Van Leyden (1745-1813), Leiden; from whom, en bloc, fl. 100,000, to Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, King of Holland (1778-1846), for the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (L. 240), The Hague, 1807; transferred to the museum, 1816
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