Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler I, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 21
Peter van den Brink, Jaap van der Veen, Jacob Backer (1608/9-1651), Zwolle; Amsterdam; Aken, 2008, nr. A7

Provenance

Sale, Christie’s, London, 21 July 1972, nr. 145, as by Jacob Jordaens (to Duits Gallery Ltd. for 1,900 guineas)
with Duits Gallery Ltd., London
sale, Sotheby’s, London, 8 December 1976, nr. 115 (for £2,000)
with Kunsthandel Gebroeder Douwes, Amsterdam, by 1977
private collection, the Netherlands, by 1998
sale, Christie’s, Amsterdam, 16 November 2006, nr. 60 (to Jack Kilgore & Co., Inc., for €50,400)
with Jack Kilgore & Co., Inc., New York
from whom acquired by the present owner in 2007
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External links

Leiden Collection, New York Accession number JAB-100

Other works by Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Young woman
c. 1633-34

Elder woman with a black veil
c. 1639

Portrait of a man, the left hand in front of his breast
c. 1641

The Governors of the Nieuwezijds huiszitten- and aalmoezeniershuis in Amsterdam
c. 1650-51

The Angel appears before Cornelius
c. 1633