Provenance
Possibly Mrs. Van Sonsbeeck, before 1751
Fréderic Szarvady (d. 1882), Paris
his sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 21 February 1874, nr. 39 [for 2500 francs]
V. Borie, Paris, 1881
private collection, Paris, 1900 [to F. Kleinberger Galleries]
with
F. Kleinberger Galleries, Paris, 1900 (to Baron Léon Janssen)
Baron Léon Janssen (1849–1923), Brussels, by 1905
his sale, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 26 April 1927, nr. 94 [to M. Knoedler & Co. for 35,200 florins]
with
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (to Andrew W. Mellon for $18,000)
Andrew W. Mellon (1855–1937), Washington, D.C., 1928
by descent to his son Paul Mellon (1907–99) (to Arthur Amory Houghton Jr.)
Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. (1906–90), New York and Queenstown, M.D., by 1955 [through Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York (to Saul P. Steinberg)]
Saul P. Steinberg (1939–2012), New York, 1984
sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 30 January 1997, nr. 39 (to private collection, Tokyo and London)
private collection, Tokyo and London
from whom acquired by the present owner in 2018
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