Landscape with an old oak, Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1639 - c. 1641

…; collection Eduard August Veltman (1878-1964), Bloemendaal, 1936, 1938;{_Tentoonstelling van oude kunst in het Frans Halsmuseum van 4 tot en met 26 april 1936_, exh. cat. Haarlem 1936, p. 19, no. 27; _Meesterwerken uit vier eeuwen, 1400-1800: Tentoonstelling van schilderijen en teekeningen uit particuliere verzamelingen in Nederland bijeengebracht gedurende de veertigjarige regeering van H.M. Koningin Wilhemina_, exh. cat. Rotterdam (Museum Boymans) 1938, p. 29, no. 117.}…; purchased from the dealer D.A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam, by Johannes Carl Hendrik Heldring (1887-1962), Oosterbeek, near Arnhem, in or before 1953;{A.J. de Lorm, _17e eeuwse meesters uit Gelders bezit_, exh. cat. Arnhem (Gemeentemuseum) 1953, p. 18, no. 48.} his sale, London (Sotheby’s), 27 March 1963, no. 10, to the museum, with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

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