A Young Woman Warming her Hands over a Brazier: Allegory of Winter, Caesar van Everdingen, c. 1650

? Probate inventory, Caesar van Everdingen, Alkmaar, after 13 October 1678 (‘Een winter 18-0-0’);{P. Huys Janssen, _Caesar van Everdingen 1616/17-1678: Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné_, Doornspijk 2002, pp. 180-81.} ? the family of the artist’s brother, Allaert van Everdingen;{P. Huys Janssen, _Caesar van Everdingen 1616/17-1678: Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné_, Doornspijk 2002, p. 180.}…; collection H.R. van Maasdijk, The Hague, 1932;{A. Blankert, ‘Vrouw ‘‘Winter’’ door Caesar van Everdingen’, _Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum_ 39 (1991), pp. 505-23, esp. p. 521, note 6.}…; private collection, The Hague, 1940;{V. Bloch, ‘Haarlemer Klassizisten’, _Oud Holland_ 57 (1940), pp. 14-21, esp. p. 20.}…; private collection;{A. Blankert, ‘Vrouw ‘‘Winter’’ door Caesar van Everdingen’, _Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum_ 39 (1991), pp. 505-23, esp. p. 507.}…; anonymous sale, The Hague (Glerum), 25 November 1991, no. 123, fl. 753,350, to the dealer R. Noortman, for the museum, with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

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