Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 299 (as Rembrandt)
Bredius 378 (as Rembrandt)
Bauch 270
Gerson 284
Bredius/Gerson 378
Tümpel A59 (follower of Rembrandt)
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler VI, Landau/Pfalz, 1994, nr. 2298b (as Samuel van Hoogstraten)
Giltaij 413 (Rembrandt workshop)

Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 287-296 (as Rembrandt Workshop possibly Carel Fabritius)
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 354 (as Rembrandt)

Provenance

Almost certainly Herman Becker (c. 1617-1678), Amsterdam
Pierre Crozat (1665-1740), Paris, before 1740
by inheritance to his nephews, first to Louis-François Crozat, marquis du Châtel (1691-1750), Paris, and then (on Louis-François' death without a male heir) to Louis-Antoine Crozat, baron de Thiers (1699-1770), Paris
the latter's heirs
purchased 1772, through Denis Diderot (1713-1784) as an intermediary, by Catherine II, empress of Russia (1729-1796), for the Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg
sold February 1931, as a painting by Rembrandt, through Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, and M. Knoedler & Co., New York to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
deeded 1 May 1937 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA

External links

RKD 208170
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1937.1.74

Other works by Samuel van Hoogstraten

The resurrection of Christ

The young mother

Portrait of a boy

Manoah's sacrifice

Young Man with Books Reaching for a Red Beret