Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler II, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 552

Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 134-135, plate 115
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 220

Provenance

a Birth of St John Baptist by 'Fabritius' was in the George Bruyn sale, Amsterdam, 16 March 1724, nr. 86
Edward Habich collection, Cassel by 1881
appears in the catalogue of the Edward Habich sale, Cassel, 9—10 May 1892, nr. 48, but was purchased by The National Gallery from Habich in 1891
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External links

RKD 242026
National Gallery, London Accession number NG1339

Other works by Barent Fabritius

Cimon and Pero
c. 1653

Portrait of a Man

The Centurion Cornelius

Ishmael, Abraham's Eldest Son, as a Hunter

Daily life in Nazareth