Four Men Standing, Wearing Hats, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1650

...; ? collection Jan Pietersz Zomer (1641-1724), Amsterdam;{Zomer 1720-24, possibly no. 38 (‘Veele aardige beeldjes, zoo Joodjes als Jodinnetjes, Persiaantjes, Bedelaartjes, Smousjes, en andere Wandelaartjes’).} ...; collection Lambert ten Kate (1674-1731), Amsterdam;{According to his inscription on the drawing.} his sale, Amsterdam (I. Tirion), 16 June 1732 sqq., Album Q, no. 38 (‘Een Soldaetje bij 3 Smousen, met zwart kryt, door Rembrandt’); ...; unknown collection (L. 474); ...; anonymous sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller & Co.), 19 January 1904, no. 295, fl. 350, to the dealer Van Gelder, Amsterdam, for Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague;{Hofstede de Groot notes, KB; copy RKD.} by whom donated to the museum, 1906, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum (L. 2228), 1930

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