…; ? sale Pieter van der Lip (1655-1712), Amsterdam, 14 June 1712, no. 22, fl. 110;{Hoet and Terwesten 1752-1770, vol. 1 (1752), p. 147.} …; ? collection Mozes de Chaves (1718-1762), Amsterdam, 1759;{In Meijer 1947, p. 12 an inventory is included of the collection Mozes de Chaves: ‘Staat en Inventaris van den Boedel en Nalatenschap van Wijlen de Heer Mozes de Chaves’ on which the painting is mentioned as follows: ‘Een blauwe Meisje door Vermeer van Delft’.} his sale, Amsterdam (H. de Winter and J. Yver), 30 November 1772 sqq., no. 23, as ‘Van der Neer (de Delfsche)’, fl. 40, to the dealer Fouquet;{Exh.cat. Dresden 2021, p. 230; Copy Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.} …; sale Pieter Lyonet (1706-1789, The Hague), Amsterdam (P.B. Bunel et al.), 11 April 1791 sqq., no. 181, fl. 43, to the dealer P. Fouquet;{Copy RKD.} …; anonymous sale, Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 14 August 1793 sqq., no. 73, fl. 70;{Copy RKD; in Liedtke 2008 incorrectly as no. 739.} …; sale Herman ten Kate (1741-1800, The Hague), Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 10 June 1801 sqq., no. 118, fl. 110, to Taijs;{Copy RKD.} …; sale Auguste-Louis-Cesar-Hyppolite-Theodore de L’Espinasse de Langeac (1759-1814), Paris (A. Paillet and H. Delaroche), 16 January 1809 sqq., no. 85, fr. 200, to Augustin Lapeyrière (1779-1831), Paris;{Copy Philadelphia Museum of Art.} his sale, Paris (M. Lacoste), 19 April 1825 sqq., no. 127, fr. 2,060 or fr. 1,060, to Berthaud;{Copy RKD1; copy Philadelphia Museum of Art.} …; the dealer John Smith, London, 1831;{Sebag-Montefiore and Armstrong-Totten 2013, p. 30, n.27.} by whom, £73 10 s, to Adriaan van der Hoop (1778-1854), Amsterdam, 1839;{Ibid., p. 22.} by whom bequeathed to the Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Amsterdam; transferred to the City of Amsterdam, 1885; on loan to the museum since 1885
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