Sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Claes van Beresteyn (1627-1684)
Provenance
J.M. Vreeswijk, Utrecht
His sale, F. Muller, Amsterdam, 3 May 1882, lot 23
William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-1894), Rotterdam & Wiesbaden (L.2643)[1]
His sale, C.F. Roos & Co., Amsterdam, 16 May 1899, lot 14
Pieter Langerhuizen (1839-1918), Estate Crailoo, Bussum & Amsterdam (L.2095)
His sale, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 29 April 1919, lot 50 (for 250 fl.), where acquired by
Eltjo Aldeongus van Beresteyn (1876-1948), The Hague[2]
Private collection, The Netherlands
Literature
H. Gerson, Leven en werken van Claes van Beresteyn. Bijlage II der genealogie van het geslacht Van Beresteyn, The Hague 1940, no. B21, p. 157, fig. 2
S. Haukeete, Dessins du Siècle d’or hollandais. La collection Jean de Grez, Brussel 2007, p. 122, n. 8
J. Giltaij, “The Drawings of Claes van Beresteyn and Adriaen Verboom”, Master Drawings, Vol. LV, no. 3, 2017, fig. 2, p. 320