...; sale, Jacob de Vos Jbzn (1803-82, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 22 May 1883 sqq., no. 424, as school of Rembrandt, with five other drawings, fl. 480, to the dealer Johannes Hendricus Balfoort (1817-83), Utrecht, for the Vereniging Rembrandt (L. 2135);{According to an inscription on the drawing; copy RKD.} on loan from the Vereniging Rembrandt to the museum (L. 2228), 1883; from the Vereniging Rembrandt, fl. 5,049, with 166 other drawings, to the museum, 1889
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