Colonel Richard Woodforde🐠 Deane (1859–1940), Hassocks, Sussex;

By whose Executors sold, London, Chriܫstie's, 2 August 1940, 🐈lot 21 (as de Heem), for 29 guineas to Katz;

With Julius Singer, London, until 31 O♍ctober 1940;

When acquired by a private collection;

Presumably by descent until anonymously sold (‘꧂Th𝐆e Property of a Lady’), London, Christie’s, 10 July 1987, lot 49, for £56,200;

With Johnny van Haeften, London, by March 1988;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, 29 June 1989, lot 💎48;

Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Christie’s, 10 July 1998, lot 16 (as Jan Bruegꦺhel the Younger)ꦫ, for £89,500 to De Jonckheere;

With Galerie De Jonckheere, Paris;

From whom acquired by Baron and Baronne de Giey;

Thence by descent.

M.-L. Hairs, Les Peintres flamands de fleurs au XIIe siècle, Brussels 1965, p. 364 and n. 300 (as attribut🌱ed to Jan Brueghel the Elder);

K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568–1625), Cologne 1979, pp. 300🥀–1 and 614, no. 338, reproduced p. 301, fig. 375 (as🍎 Jan Brueghel the Elder [?]);

M.-L. Hairs, Les Peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siècle, Brussels𝐆 1985, vol. II, p. 🦩14 (as attributed to Jan Brueghel the Elder).

London, Johnny Van Haeften and Maastricht, TEFAF, Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, 1988, no. 3 (as Jan Brueghel the Younger);

New York, Newhouse Galleries, Nature’s Image, 11 May – 17 June 1988,☂ n. p., no. 2 (as Jan Brueghel the Younger).