...; collection Jan van Rijmsdyck (c. 1730-88/90), London (L. 2167); ...; ? collection William Esdaile (1758-1837), London;{According to the catalogue for the sale, Edward Cheney (1803-84, London), London (Sotheby's), 29 April (4 May) 1885 sqq., no. 865.} ? his sale and Edward Cheney (1803-84, London), London (Sotheby's), 29 April (4 May) 1885 sqq., no. 865 (‘A child asleep; from the Esdaile collection’), £14, to the dealer Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (c. 1840-92), London;{Copy RKD.} ...; sale, Ritter Alfred von Franck (1808-84, Graz), Frankfurt-am-Main (F.A.C. Prestel), 4 December 1889 sqq., no. 187 (‘Schlafendes Kind. [...] Meisterhaft mit der Feder skizzirt und leicht getuscht. Auf der Rückseite die höchst flüchtige mit Roth-tein gezeichnete Skizze einer im Bett ruhenden Figur’), 131 DM;{Copy RKD.} ...; collection William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller & Co.), 25 (26) June 1895 sqq., no. 525, fl. 180, to the dealer C.F. Roos, Amsterdam, for the Vereniging Rembrandt;{Copy RMA; note RMA.} from whom, fl. 207, to the museum (L. 2228), 1901
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