...; collection Dirk Vis Blokhuyzen (1799-1869), Rotterdam;{According to an inscription on the drawing.} his sale, Rotterdam (D.A. Lamme and A.C. van Wijngaarden), 23 (27) October 1871 sqq., no. 179, as Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, fl. 2, to Carel Vosmaer (1826-88), The Hague;{Copy RKD.} …; sale, Jan Hendrik Cremer (1813-85, Brussels) et al., Amsterdam (F. Muller), 15 June 1886 sqq., no. 93, as Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, fl. 24, to the dealer H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart;{According to the annotated catalogue for the sale Jan Hendrik Cremer, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 15 June 1886 sqq., no. 93, the drawing was consigned by Carel Vosmaer; copy RMA.} ...; collection Jean-Francois Gigoux (1806-94), Paris;{According to the catalogue for the sale, William Pitcairn Knowles, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 208.} ...; collection William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2634), his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 208, as Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, with one other drawing, fl. 32 for both, to the dealer H.J. Valk for the Vereniging Rembrandt;{Copy RKD.} on loan from the Vereniging Rembrandt to the museum, 1895; from the Vereniging Rembrandt, fl. 46, to the museum (L. 2228), 1899
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