…; sale, M. le Chevalier W. Gockinga†, de Groningue et al.[section 'M. le Chevalier W. Gockinga'] Amsterdam (Van Pappelendam & Schouten), 14 August 1883 sqq., no. 34, fl. 3,000, to Jan Christiaan van Hattum van Ellewoutsdijk (1837-1909), Sliedrecht;{Copy RKD.} from whom on loan to the Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1894-1912;{Note RMA.} by descent through the family Van Hattum van Ellewoutsdijk;{According to the catalogue for the anonymous sale, 11 December 1987, London (Sotheby's), no. 29.} anonymous sale [section 'The Van Hattum Family of Ellewoutsdijk, Zeeland'], London (Christie’s), 11 December 1987, no. 29, £ 341,000;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Barbara Piasecka Johnson, Princeton, New Jersey;{Kilian 2005, p. 191, no. 91.} …; sale, Mr and Mrs George Brage et al. [section 'Property of a Private Collector'], New York (Christie’s), 31 January 1997, no. 44, $ 442,500, to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Rijksmuseum Stichting {Provenance reconstructed in Jansen 1997.}
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