We would like to thank Jan Nicolaisen, collections director at the Museum der Bildende Künste Leipzig, for kindly providing additional information.

1935 Leopold Hirschberg, Berlin-Westend (as Maerten van Heemskerck) / presumably Minna Beckmann-Tube (1881–1964), Berlin-Hermsdorf, via her sister Elisabeth Schmidt, born Tube, to Elisabeth Schmidt's daughter Irmgard Frege (1902–1984), Markkleeberg / since 1984 collection of her son Roland Petzoldt, Munich and Pforzheim / family collection

From 1952 in the depot of the Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (inv. no. 2703); from 1983 as long-term loan to that museum (inv. no. D 72) – restituted there 2016

Auction catalogue: Sammlung und Villen-Einrichtung L. Hirschberg. Westend. Oldenburgallee 15, Internationales Kunst- und Auktions-Haus, Berlin, cat. 145, 11. Feb. 1933, lot 104, plate 6 (with an expertise from Prof. Walter Bombe, University of Cologne) / Auction catalogue: Internationales Kunst- und Auktions-Haus, Berlin, catalogue 230, 5. Feb. 1935, lot 519, plate 2 / Herwig Guratzsch (ed.): Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig. Katalog der Gemälde, ed. Dietulf Sander, Stuttgart 1995, p. 217, ill. 794