Provenance

Ambrose Hussey-Freke (1865-1939), Hannington Hall, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, by 1891 (according to a label on the reverse).
D.L. Hussey-Freke, Marlborough.
Anonymous sale (probably Hussey-Freke); Wooley and Wallis, Salisbury, 5 May 1978.
with Agnew's, London, by 1980.
J. Feilding Ltd, London, 1981.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1986, lot 152, as Nicolaes Berchem and Jan Both.
with Heide Hubner, Wurzburg, by 1988.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 July 2004, lot 124, where acquired by,
Norman and Suzanne Hascoe, Greenwich, by 2005; [Property from the Hascoe Family Collection], Christie's, New York, 4 June 2014, lot 33, where acquired by the present owner
Sale Christie's, New York, 21 May 2025, nr. 176

Other works by Nicolaes Berchem

Crab fishermen at night
1645

A merchant receiving a Moor at the port palace

Vertumnus and Pomona

Jupiter Notices Callisto
1656

Italian Landscape with Figures
1654