Provenance
Maria Rutgers (died 1652), widow of the Mennonite merchant, Ameldonck Leeuw (who may well have purchased the painting directly from the artist)
her son, David Leeuw (1631/32-1703), by descent
his grand-daughter, Anna van Lennep, widow of Pieter Roeters, by descent
her sale, Van Vreede et al., Amsterdam, 30 January 1759, nr. 1, sold for fl. 1100 to the De Neufville brothers
probably Pieter Leendert de Neufville, Amsterdam
Johann Ernst Gotzkowski (1710-1775), Berlin, acquired before 1764
Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (1729-1796, czarina from 1762), purchased along with 224 other paintings from the Gotzkowski collection
transferred from the
State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow in 1964
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