Provenance
Purchased by the dealer Gerhard Morell on behalf of Graaf Adam Gottlob Moltke, Amalienborg, Copenhagen, 1757
by descent through the family
sale, The Moltke Collection, Kopenhagen (Van Winkel & Magnussen), 1 (2) June 1931 sqq., nr. 141, Dkr. 825, possibly to Dr Jur. Naftali Cohn
sale, his deceased estate, Copenhagen, (V. Winkel & Magnussens Kunstauktioner), 2 December 1937, nr. 37, Dkr 1800
Danish private collection
on loan from Henry Avar, Stockholm, to the museum, 1994 (inv. no. SK-C-1640)
from whom, fl. 950,000, to the museum, with support from the Rijksmuseum Stichting, 1996