Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler III, Landau/Pfalz, 1986, nr. 1312
Krempel D24
Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 242-245, plate 203
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 401
Literature
David de Witt, Leonore van Sloten, Jaap van der Veen, Rembrandt's Late Pupils, Amsterdam, 2015, fig. 2.18
Exhibitions
2019 Nicolaes Maes - Rembrandt's Versatile Pupil, Nr. 1
1992 De Zichtbaere Werelt, schilderkunst uit de Gouden Eeuw in Hollands oudste stad, Nr. 57
Provenance
it has been suggested by Bredius that this is the life-size Christ blessing the Children, whose author is not named, which was with an Ecce Homo in an inventory of pictures belonging to Maria van Rommerswael, widow of Godschalck van der Hu1st, in Dordrecht, 1674
apparently in the collection of Graf von Schönborn in Vienna by 1746
bought from the Schönborn-Buchheim collection in Vienna by Barthold Suermondt of Aachen, March 1866
National Gallery, London, purchased from Barthold Suermondt, July 1866
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Other works by Nicolaes Maes
The lace maker
Family Portrait
c. 1676
c. 1676
The Naughty Drummer
Portrait of Jacob de Witt
1657
1657
Portrait of a Lady near a Fountain