Literature

Collection catalogues
Homan Potterton, Dutch seventeenth and eighteenth century paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1986, pp. 139-140, fig. 148

Provenance

Henry Cruger Price, decd. sale, Christie's, 21 March 1857, lot 28
bt. Adams
Sir Walter Armstrong
by whom presented to The National Gallery of Ireland, 1896
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Iconclass

71T76 The meeting of parents and son ~ Tobias' return

Other works by Cornelis Saftleven

Self-portrait
c. 1625-27

Stable Interior
c. 1645

Sleeping Hunter in a Landscape
1642 or later

An Allegory of Wisdom

Satire on the trial of Johan van Oldenbarneveldt
1663