Lucas Merens, Burgomaster of Hoorn and Direct෴or of the Dutch Eas🉐t India Company;

His po🔴sthumous sale, Amsterdam, Ploos v. A., Yver, 15 April 1778, added lot 175a, for 250 florins to Cornelis Ploos van Amstel;

J.T. Batt, New Hall, Salisbury, by 1834;

Thence by inheಞritance or sale at New Hall to Major General Buckley by 18𓆏53;

By pres🐲umed inheritance to 🍌Alfred Buckley, by 1883;

By whose Executors sold London, Christie's, 4 Ma🍬y 1901, lot 24, for 231 guineas to Colnaghi;

With P. & D. Colnaghi, London;

With Hans M. Cramer, 𒉰The Hague, by 1957🌠, and in 1964;

A. Sutter, Mannheim, by 19ಌ65 until aft𓆉er 1978;

Private c𒐪ollector, Germany, by whom acquired shortly after 1978 a🍬nd certainly by 1994 (offered New York, Christie's, 12 January 1996, lot 198);

By whom sold (‘The Property of a Private Collector’), London, Sotheby's, 7 Decem𝓰ber 2005, lot 13, for £400,000;

There purchased by the present owner.

J. Smith, A catalogue raisonné..., vol. V, London 1834, p. 81, no. 252;

A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813–1912, London 1913, vol. I, pp. 60 and 62;

C.Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke..., vol. IX, Esslingen/Paris 1926, p. 179, no. 449;

‘Notable Works of Art now on the Market’, in The Burlington Magazine, v♒ol. XCI🔴X, no. 651, June 1957, reproduced pl. IX;

E. Schaar, Studien zu Nicolaes Berchem, dissertation, Cologne 1958, p. 69;

A. Blankert, Nederlandse 17e Eeuwse Italianiserende Landschapschilders, Soest 1978, pp. 162–63, no. 83🅘, repr༺oduced pl. 85;

P. Sutton in The Golden Age of Dutch Landscape Painting, ex𝕴h. cat., Madrid 1994, p. 80, no. 83, reproduc🙈ed in colour;

L. Harwood in Inspired by Italy. Dutch landscape painting 1600–1700, exh. cat., Dulwich Picture Gallery, London,&🐭nbs𒁃p;2002, p. 140, no. 31, reproduced in colour p. 141;

P. Biesboer and L. Pijl in Nicolaes Berchem. In the Light of Italy, P. Biesboer (ed.), ඣexh. cat., 🧸Haarlem, Schwerin and Zürich, Haarlem 2006, pp. 24, 140–41, no. 31, reproduced in colour opposit p. 65;

P. Biesboer, De Gouden eeuw begint in Haarlem, exh. cat., Haarlem 2008, pp. 70–71, 17🌊7, reproduced fig. 45;

P. Biesboer, Frans Hals und Haarlems Meister der Goldenen Zeit, exh. cat., Munich 2008, pp. 70–71, reproduc🐭ed p. 70, fig. 45.

London, British Inst�♛�itution, 1853, no. 75 (lent by Major-General Buckley);

London, Royal Academy, 1883, n🀅o. 239 (lent by A. Buckle🌳y);

Utrecht, Centraalmuseum, Nederlands 17 eeuwse Italianiserende Landschapschilders, 10 March – 30 May 1965, no. 85;

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, The Golden Age of Dutch Landscape Painting, 1994, no. 9;

London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Inspired by Italy. Dutch landscape painting 1600–1700, 22 May – 26 August 2002, no. 31;

Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, 16 December 2006 – 15 April 2007; Schwerin, Staatliches Museum, 27 April – 19 August 2007; and Zürich, Kunsthaus, 1 September – 2 December 2007, Nicolaes Berchem. In the Light of Italy, no. 31;

Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, De Gouden eeuw begint in Haarlem, 11 October 2008 – 1 February 2009, no. 45;

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Frans Hals und Haarlems Meister der Goldenen Zeit, 15 February – 7 June 2009, no. 45.