With Leonard Koetser Gallery, London, by 1962.

London, Leonard Koetser Gallery, 10th Annual Autumn Exhibition of Important Dutch, Flemish and Italian Old Master Paintings, 23 October - 1 December 1962, cat. no. 38.

Panel has been cradled and is flat and stable. under a slightly dirty and uneven old varnish. overall there is good retention of the paint surface with only some slight thinnesses to some areas of background. examination under ultraviolet reveals very small scattered retouches to face and some retouching to both hands. others scattered here and there on red robe. there are small retouches on both animal faces upper right, with retouching over both the donkey's ears, and other scattered but small retouches in background. Offered in a wood frame with a green velvet liner (which has been abraded) and gilt inner rim.
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A comparable figure of the young Joseph can be seen in David's Nativity (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jules S. Bache Collection, circa 1510-15, inv. nos. 49.7.20 a-c), where the kneeling male figure in the central panel is closely related, in both facial representation and pose, to the present figure.  Examination of the present work under infrared reflectography reveals an underdrawing that is very close to David's style of underdrawing of around 1510 (see fig. 1).