Provenance
Michiel de Ruyter, Amsterdam, estate inventory, 1677
Engel de Ruyter, Amsterdam, partition of the estate, 1683
inherited by the children of Cornelia de Ruyter, Amsterdam
by descent through the children of Margareta de Ruyter to the Elias family
purchased by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam from Jonkheer H.A. Elias, Arnhem, 1911-1912, with the support of the Rembrandt Society and sixty private donors
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