With Madeleine Schaubroek, Brussels;
Her sale, Brussels, Galerie Giroux, 3 May 1927, lot 353, reproduced (as Essais van de Velde);
Anonymous sale, Lokeren, De Vuyst, 17 February 1979, lot 21 (as W.C. Duyster);
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 7 December 1982, lot 158, (as Palamdedsz.);
Anonymous sale Cologne, Lempertz, 19 November 1987, lot 122 (as N. Ravesteyn the Younger);
Anonymous sale, Loekeren, De Vuyst, 25 February 1989, lot 413 (as Palamedesz).

G. Keyes, Esaias van den Velde 1587-1630, Doornspijk 1984, p. 195, cat. no. rej. 13 (under rejected paintings).

The flat, uncradled panel has a horizontal split in the centre but is stable. The paint surface is generally secure and under a very dirty varnish. Inspection under UV light reveals some scattered retouchings. Offered in a carved wooden frame in fair condition.
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Though traditionally attributed to Salomon van Ruysdael, the present work is more likely to be an early work by Palamedes. The figure of the mounted officer drinking on the far left of the picture and of the tented structure beside him are both repeated, for example, in a signed painting of 1630 formerly with S. Nystad, The Hague (reprodiced in G.S. Keyes, Op. cit., fig. 96).