Gerrit
Willem van Oosten de Bruyn (1727–1797), Haarlem
His
sale, Haarlem, Vinne, 8 April 1800, lot 8
C.H.
Schultz, Frankfurt
His
sale, Amsterdam, de Vries, 10 July 1826, lot 40, for 79 florins to Brondgeest
Augustus
Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), 1820 (not confirmed)
A.
J. Mott, Bournemouth, 1947
Anonymous
sale, London, Christie's, 19 December 1947, lot 83, for 3,400 guineas to Duits
Mrs
R.A. Constantine, by 1949
Anonymous
sale ('The Property of a Family Trust'), London, Christie's, 15 April 1983, lot
15, where acquired by the husband of the late owner
Thence
by descent
Private
collection, United Kingdom, until 2022
Anonymous
sale, Sotheby’s, London, 8 December 2022, lot 443
C.
Hofstede de Groot, A
Catalogue Raisonné...,vol.
I, London 1907, p. 538, no. 226
P.
Sutton, Pieter de Hooch,London 1980,
p. 121, no. B1, reproduced pl. 167 (as tentatively accepted).
Middlesborough,
Municipal Art Gallery, on loan 1949
Scarsborough, Municipal Art Gallery, Dutch
Festival,June
1960, no. 28.
When Dr. Peter Sutton compiled his monograph in 1980 he was only aware of the painting through an old black and white photograph, but he has recently revised his opinion and endorsed the attribution to Pieter de Hooch on the basis of photographs.