Jan Asselijn

Provenance

Christopher Batt, London
His sale, Christie's, London, April 14-15, 1756, nr. 66
Acquired at the above sale by Lord Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt (1714-1777), Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire
George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt (1736-1809)
William Harcourt, 3rd and last Earl Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt (1742/3-1830)
Thence via the marriage of his great aunt, Martha (1715-1794) to George Vernon, later Venables-Vernon, 1st Lord Vernon, Baron of Kinderton (1709/10-1780), to their second son, Edward Venables-Vernon (1757-1847), created Vernon Harcourt by Royal licence on inheriting the Harcourt Estates in 1830
George Granville Vernon-Harcourt, later Harcourt of Nuneham Courtenay (1785-1861)
Rev. William Vernon-Harcourt, later Harcourt (1789-1871)
Edward William Harcourt of Nuneham Courtenay and Stanton Harcourt (1825-1891)
Aubrey Harcourt, of Nuneham Park and Stanton Harcourt (1852-1904)
Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904)
Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt and Baron Nuneham of Nuneham-Courtenay (1863-1922)
William Edward Harcourt, 2nd Viscount Harcourt (1908-1979)
His sale, Christie's, London, June 11, 1948, nr. 90 (bt. Mallet for Hearst)
William Randolph Hearst, New York and Los Angeles, until 1949
Gift of William Randolph Hearst to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1949 (acc. no. 49.17.7)
Sale Sotheby's New York, January 28, 2010, nr. 159

Other works by Jan Asselijn

Herders with Their Animals under an Arch of the Colosseum in Rome

Landscape with a Stone Bridge
1647/50

Landscape with Tower

The Breach of the Saint Anthony's Dike near Amsterdam
1651

A military skirmish in a wooded landscape