The Master of 1518

Jakob Johann Nepomuk Lyversberg (1761–1834), Cologne;

His posthumous sale, Cologne, 16 August 1837, lot 39 (as School of Dinant);

Count Gregory S. Stroganoff (1829–1910), Palazzo Stroganoff, Rome, by 1911;

Roerich Museum, New York;

By whom sold, New York, American Art Association, 27–28 March 1930, lot 148 (as Herri met de Bles), for $4,500, to

Henry L. Moses (d. 1961), New York;

By inheritance to his wife Lucy G. Moses (d. 1990), New York;

By whose Estate sold ('The Property from the Estate of Lucy G. Moses, New York'), New York, Christie's, 31 May 1991, lot 36A;

With Galerie de Jonckheere, Paris, 1992 (when exhibited at Maastricht);

Probably from whom acquired by the father of the present owners.

A. Muñoz and L. Pollak, Pièces de Choix de la Collection du Comte Grégoire Stroganoff à Rome, Rome, vol. 2, 1911, p. 63, reproduced pl. XLV (as Herri Met de Bles);

M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting: The Antwerp Mannerists, Adriaen Ysenbrandt, vol. XI, Leiden and Brussels 1974, p. 75, cat. no. 79, reproduced pl. 79 (as Master of 1518, location unknown).