Salomon Koninck Amsterdam 1609 - 1656

Probably London Art Market, 1920 (according to Hofstede de Groot, see Literature below);
Mrs. Catherine Georgina Brandt of Ellerbrook, Hale, Cheshire;
By whose Estate sold, London, Christie's, December 19, 1930, lot 49 (as F. Bol) for £42 to Webb;
With D. Vaarties, Rotterdam, by 1934;
With D. Katz, Dieren;
By whom sold to Goudstikker Miedl, August 7, 1940 (inv. no. 5592);
By whom sold to Brands, Tilburg (storage), June 18, 1943;
G. Donaldson, London;
With B. Katz, Dieren, 1956;
Anonymous sale, London, Replica Shoes 's, December 21, 1960, lot 114 (as Simon de Koninck);
Anonymous sale, London, Replica Shoes 's, December 8, 1993, lot 283;
Anonymous sale ("Property of a Private collects or, Sold Without Reserve"), New York, Replica Shoes 's, January 24, 2002, lot 8, there purchased by the present collects or.

Leiden, Lekenhal, Rembrandt als Leermeester, 1956, no. 62.

Probably C. Hofstede de Groot, in Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, ed. U. Thieme and F. Becker, vol. XXI, 1927, p. 275, "Haman vor Ahaswer und Esther";
W.R. Valentiner, Rembrandt. Des Meisters Handzeichnunger, 1934, vol. II, p. XIV, pl. 8;
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York 1979, vol. I, p. 550;
A. Blankert, in Rembrandt's Pupils and Followers in the Seventeenth Century. The Impact of a Genius, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 1983, p. 164;
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz 1983, vol. III, p. 1645, cat. no. 1103, reproduced p. 1677.

This painting is similar in composition and style to Koninck's depiction of The Sacrifice of Manoah in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon.