Provenance
Possibly Isaak van Thye, Lord of Opmeer;
Possibly his posthumous sale, Amsterdam, 22 April 1711, lot 6, for 28–10 Dutch Florins;
Possibly Clemens August, Elector of Cologne (1700–61);
Possibly his posthumous sale, Bonn, 14 May 1764, lot 627;
Possibly Neveu, Paris;
Possibly Pierre-Louis-Casimir Duquesnoy de Moussy (b. 1728);
Possibly his sale, Paris, Regnault Delalande, 3 March 1803, lot 60, for 182 Francs to Guillaume-Jean Constantin;
Possibly sale, Fonthill Abbey, Christie's, 8 October 1822, lot 54;
Possibly sale, Fonthill Abbey, Phillips, 11 October 1823, lot 126, for £14–3s.;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 10 July 1992, lot 166 (as Hendrik van Steenwijck the Elder);
Where acquired by the present owner
Sale Sotheby's, London, 6 December 2018, nr. 129