...; sale, William Roscoe (1753-1831, Liverpool), Liverpool (Winstanley), 23 (26) September 1816 sqq., no. 607 (‘Six, by or in the manner of Rembrandt’), £ 0.14.0, to the dealer Stanley, London;{According to an inscription on the drawing; copy RMA.} ...; sale, Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel (1820-99, Paris) and Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913, Edinburgh and London), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 20 November 1882 sqq., no. 169, as Rembrandt, fl. 10;{Copy RKD.} ...; purchased from Paul Mathey (1844-1929), Paris, as Rembrandt, with three other drawings, through the mediation of the dealer P. Roblin, by Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague, 1903;{Hofstede de Groot notes, KB.} by whom donated to the museum, 1906, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum (L. 2228), 1930
Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)