…; ? collection Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-98), Amsterdam;{According to the catalogue for the sale, William Pitcairn Knowles, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 13.} …; sale, Johannes Cornelis van Pappelendam (1810-84, Amsterdam) and Gerrit Jan Schouten (1815-78, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (F. Muller and C.F. Roos) 11 June 1889 sqq., no. 496, with 27 other drawings, or no. 497, with 14 other drawings;{Note RMA, ‘Pappelendam Oct. 1888’.} …; sale, William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94, Rotterdam and Wiesbaden), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 13, fl. 3, to the dealer F. Muller to the Vereniging Rembrandt; from whom on loan to the museum, 1895; from whom to the museum, 1897
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