Identical partial copy: oil on panel, 40 x 30,5 cm, in: auction catalogue, Karl und Faber, Munich, auction 246, October 2012, lot 205 (as Adriaen van der Werff, formerly Galerie St. Lucas) / oil on panel, 40,5 x 30 cm, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie.

Related literature: Barbara Gaehtgens: Adriaen van der Werff. 1659–1722, Munich 1987, p. 261–263, cat. 41, 41.2 and 41.3.

We would like to thank Barbara Gaehtgens, Los Angeles, for kindly providing additional information regarding the attribution on the basis of photographs..

Until 1914 private collection, Brussels / collection of the owner of the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung newspaper, Arnold Killisch v. Horn (1862–1939), Berlin-Pankow / his widow Gertrud Killisch v. Horn (1893–1943) / 1940 collection Kurt Rohde, Berlin / 1943 deposited with Elisabeth Berbig, Dresden (as Willem van Mieris) / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin.

Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: receipt Gertrud Killisch v. Horn, Berlin, 6 February 1940, 1.000 RM / book inventory no. 859 (1940) / receipt no. 143 (as Mieris)

Auction catalogue: Fievez, Brussels, 12 June 1914, lot 66 (frcs. 260) / Cornelis Hofstede de Groot: Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart and Paris 1928, vol. X, p. 186, no. 306 (als Willem van Mieris) / catalogue of the Kunst- und Antiquitätenmesse München, Munich 1973, p. 325