Possibly Mrs. Van Sonsbeeck, before 1751.
Fréderic Szarvady (d. 1882), Paris (his
sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 21 February 1874, no. 39 [for 2500 francs]).
V. Borie, 1881.
Private collection, Paris, 1900 [to F.
Kleinberger Galleries]).
[F. Kleinberger Galleries, Paris, 1900 (to
Baron Léon Janssen)].
Baron Léon Janssen (1849–1923), Brussels,
by 1905 (his sale, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 26 April
1927, no. 94 [to M. Knoedler & Co. for 35,200 florins]).
[M. Knoedler & Co., New York (to Andrew
W. Mellon for $18,000)].
Andrew W. Mellon (1855–1937), Washington,
D.C., 1928; by descent to his son Paul Mellon (1907–99) (to Arthur Amory
Houghton Jr.).
Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. (1906–90), New
York and Queenstown, M.D., by 1955 [through Richard L. Feigen & Co., New
York (to Saul P. Steinberg)].
Saul P. Steinberg (1939–2012), New York, 1984
(sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 30 January 1997, no. 39 [to private collection,
Tokyo and London).
Private collection, Tokyo and London.
From whom acquired by the present owner in
2018.
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Frederik. “Le troisième centenaire de Rembrandt en Hollande.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 36 (1906): 276.
Possibly
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Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi. London, 2019, 26, 30. [Exhibition catalogue also
published in French and Arabic.]
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Blaise, and Lara Yeager-Crasselt, eds. Rembrandt,
Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age. Masterpieces
from The Leiden Collection and the Musée du Louvre. Exh. cat. Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi. London, 2019, 88–89,
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Manuth,
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no. 283.
Leiden,
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1906, no. 51 [lent by Baron Léon Janssen].
Brussels,
“International Exhibition of Miniatures,” 1912, no. 1046 [lent by Baron Léon Janssen].
The
Hague, Koninklijke Kunstzaal Kleykamp, “Tentoonstelling van schilderijen door
oud-hollandsche en vlaamsche meesters,” 1927, no. 32 [lent by Baron Léon Janssen].
New
York, National Academy of Design, “Dutch and Flemish Paintings from New York Private
Collections,” 1988–89, no. 38 [lent by Saul P. Steinberg].
Melbourne,
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December 1997; Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, 17 December 1997–15 February
1998, no. 9.
Boston,
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October 2003–18 January 2004; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 14 February–9
May 2004, no. 31.
Abu
Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi, “Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age. Masterpieces
from The Leiden Collection and the Musée du Louvre,” 14 February–18 May 2019 [lent by the present owner].
For the full catalague entry please click on the following link to The Leiden Collection
online catalogue:- https://www.theleidencollection.com/artwork/bust-of-a-bearded-old-man/