Sold to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Adriaen de Weerdt (c. 1540-c. 1580)
Provenance
Sotheby’s, London, 13 December 1966, lots 108-111
Peter Claas, London, 1967
Pieter de Boer (1894-1974), Hergiswil, Switzerland
Phillips, London, 17 April 1996, lot 120
Barbara Piasecka Johnson (1937-2013), Princeton, NJ, by whom sold
Christie’s, London, 30 September 2014, lot 272 (as attributed to de Weerdt)
Private collection, The Netherlands
Exhibitions
London, The Alpine Gallery, Peter Claas Paintings and Drawings, Exhibition of drawings of five centuries, 15-27 May 1967, no. 96, p.89, pl. XIV
Düsseldorf, Galerie Sabrina Förster, Sammlung Pieter de Boer: holländische und italienische Meisterzeichnungen, 15.-19. Jahrhundert, Spring 1993, cat.no. 3, pp. 12-13, ill. (as The Presentation in the Temple)
Warsaw, Zamek Królewski, The Masters of drawings. Drawings from Barbara Piasecka Johnson collection, 4 December 2010 – 6 February 2011, pp. 176-177, ill.
Literature
Ilja M. Veldman, De wereld tussen goed en kwaad. Late prenten van Coornhert, The Hague 1990, p. 19, fig. VI, fn. 39 (The Visitation)
Hessel Miedema, ed., Karel van Mander. The Lives of the Illustrious Netherlandish and German Painters, Doornspijk 1996, Vol. III, p. 209, fn. 41
Hollstein’s Dutch & Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700, Vol. LI, Rotterdam 1998, pp. 220-221
Ilja M. Veldman, “Tekeningen van Adriaan de Weert”, Delineavit et Sculpsit, December 2017, No. 42, pp. 2-22, ill. 4, 5, 8, 12, p. 5