…; ? collection Von Hendorff;{O. ter Kuile, ‘Twee portretten uit de zeventiende eeuw in het Rijksmuseum Twenthe te Enschede’, _Antiek_ 3 (1968), pp. 9-13, esp. p. 9; Ekkart in J.B. Bedaux and R.E.O. Ekkart (eds.), _Pride and Joy: Children’s Portraits in the Netherlands 1500-1700_, exh. cat. Haarlem (Frans Hals Museum)/Antwerp (Royal Museum of Fine Arts) 2000-01, p. 174; R.E.O. Ekkart, _Johannes Verspronck and the Girl in Blue_, Amsterdam 2009, p. 38. According to H.W. Keiser, _Gemäldegalerie Oldenburg_, coll. cat. Oldenburg 1966, p. 11, Von Hendorff was a Danish major and ducal postmaster, in which case he would have been Johann Georg von Hendorff (1744-1800). Another candidate is his elder brother Friedrich Wilhelm von Hendorff (1738-1798).} ? his posthumous sale, Oldenburg (auction house not known), 1800, to Peter Friedrich Ludwig, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1755-1829), Augusteum, Oldenburg;{R.E.O. Ekkart, _Johannes Verspronck and the Girl in Blue_, Amsterdam 2009, p. 38. That sale is not documented, however.} first documented in his collection in 1805;{F. von Alten, _Verzeichnis der Gemälde, Gypse und Bronzen in der Grossherzoglichen Sammlung zu Oldenburg: Mit einem Anhange der auf den Gemälden befindlichen Monogramme, Bezeichnungen und Inschriften_, coll. cat. Oldenburg 1881, p. 86, no. 211.} by descent to Friedrich August, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1852-1931); from whom purchased by Mari Paul Voûte (1856-1928), Amsterdam, through the mediation of the dealer A.W.M. Mensing, in or before 1922;{P.J.J. van Thiel, ‘Verkregen met de steun van de Vereniging Rembrandt: 1928 Johannes Verspronck: _Portret van een meisje in het blauw_’, _Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum_ 31 (1983), pp. 210-11, esp. p. 210; R.E.O. Ekkart, _Johannes Verspronck and the Girl in Blue_, Amsterdam 2009, pp. 7-8.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1922-28; from whom, with SK-A-3065 and SK-A-3066, fl. 100,000, to the Vereniging Rembrandt, 1928;{P.J.J. van Thiel, ‘Verkregen met de steun van de Vereniging Rembrandt: 1928 Johannes Verspronck: _Portret van een meisje in het blauw_’, _Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum_ 31 (1983), pp. 210-11, esp. p. 210. The sum of fl. 100,000 was actually paid for Rembrandt’s _Old Woman Reading_ (SK-A-3066), the other two paintings being donations; see P. Hecht, _125 jaar openbaar kunstbezit met steun van de Vereniging Rembrandt_, exh. cat. Amsterdam (Van Gogh Museum) 2008-09, pp. 70-72, 75.} donated to the museum by the Vereniging Rembrandt, November 1928
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