Provenance

Sale, Paillet and Delaroche, Paris, 18–25 April 1803, nr. 143 (sold to Sigismund Ehrenreich, Graf von Redern, for 1510 francs)
Marquis Marialva, by 1825 (bought by John Smith for £80 before 1833)
Héris, Brussels, by 1833
Désiré van den Schrieck, Leuven
her sale, Le Roy, Brussels, 8–11 April, 1861, nr. 52 (sold to Allard in Douai for 6,400 francs)
private collection, France
sale, Drouot, Paris, 22 June 1990, nr. 22, (sold for 2,000,000 francs)
with Agnew’s, London, 1992
with Agnew’s / Salomon Lilian B. V., Amsterdam, 2001
private collection, The Hague, by 2001
with Salomon Lilian B. V., Amsterdam, 2004
from whom acquired by the present owner in 2004
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External links

Leiden Collection, New York Accession number GM-100

Other works by Gabriël Metsu

Hunter Getting Dressed after Bathing
c. 1654-56

Public Notary
c. 165(3?)

A Cavalier on Horseback before an Inn

Smoker Seated at a Table
c. 1654-57

Old Woman at Her Meal in an Interior
c. 1654-57