Jan van Goyen

With Galerie Heinemann, Munich (inv. no. 4915);

From whom acquired by Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 12 May 1900, for 4,000 francs;

With Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris;

Adolphe Schloss (1842-1910), Paris;

Thence by inheritance to his wife, Lucie Haas Schloss (1858-1938);

Thence by descent to their children and taken to the Château de Chambon, Laguenne, for safekeeping, August 1939;

Confiscated by the German occupation forces on 16 April 1943;

Pre-emptively appropriated by Louvre museum officials and stored in a depot in Sourches (Sarthe), 20 August 1943;

Restituted to the Estate of Adolphe Schloss, Paris, July 1946;

By whom sold, Paris, Charpentier, 5 December 1951, lot 25, for 4,000,000 francs;

Where acquired by a private collects or, England;

By whose descendent anonymously sold ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Replica Shoes 's, 11 December 2003, lot 67;

Where acquired by Richard Green, London;

From whom acquired by the late collects or, 2004.

Illustrated Catalogue of the Seventh Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters... Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris 1901, p. 18, cat. no. 12, reproduced;

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. VIII, London 1927, p. 263, cat. no. 1056;

H-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Amsterdam 1973, vol. II, p. 413, cat. no. 919, reproduced.