Attributed to Jacob Backer

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 868
Bredius 348 (as Rembrandt)
Bauch 491
Gerson 185
Bredius/Gerson 348
Tümpel -
Corpus III C 112 (Rembrandt workshop)
Giltaij 382 (Rembrandt workshop)

Literature
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 1

Provenance

J.A. Tourton or M. ten Hove, until 1760
posthumous sale, Amsterdam, 8ff. April 1760, nr. 2, with pendant to Yver
sale, Cok, Amsterdam, 8 May 1769, nr. 66, with pendant to Fouquet
Pierre Fouquet, Amsterdam, from 1769
?Sainte-Foix
his/her anonymous sale, Le Brun, Paris, 22ff. April 1782, nr. 3, with pendant to Donjeux
?Donjeux, from 1782
Mme Hoofman, Haarlem, in 1836
Charles-Auguste-Louis-Joseph de Morny, duc de Morny, Paris, by 1863–died 1865
his estate sale, Palais de la Présidence du Corps Législatif, Paris, 31 May 1865, nr. 69
baron Achille Seillière, Paris, in 1867
private collection, until 1888
sale, Christie's, London, 14 and 16 July 1888, nr. 167, as property of a gentleman, to Lesser
with L. Lesser, London, 1888–89
Arthur Sanderson, Edinburgh, by 1897–until about 1906
with Duveen, London, until 1906, sold to Altman
Benjamin Altman, New York, 1906–died 1913

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 14.40.603

Other works by Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Shepherd
c. 1644

Saint Andrew
c. 1630

Old Man
c. 1632/33

Bacchus and Ariadne
1643

Isaac and Rebecca Making Love
1640