Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler IV, Landau/Pfalz, 1989, nr. 1650
Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 311-312, plate 271
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 539
Provenance
[Henry(?) Chandler] sale, London, 27 March 1857, nr. 74, bought in?
National Gallery, London, presented by T. Humphry Ward, 1889
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Other works by Willem de Poorter
The circumsision of Christ
Tobias healing his father
The adoration of the shepherds
Vanitas still life
Jerobeam's sacrifice