Mr. N.J.W. Smallenburg🀅 van Stellendam, T🌠he Hague, by 1872;

Thence by 🧸descent to his wife, n♋ée Thooft, The Hague;

Thence by descent✃ until sold (“les successions Mme Vve Mr N.J.W. Smallenburg van Stellendam – née Thooft de La Haye”), Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 6 May 1913, lot 39 (as Hals, described as “Le plus important tableau de la succession – Smallenburg”);

Probably where acquire𝓡d♑ by August Janssen (1863-1918), Amsterdam, for 15,000 Dutch guilders;

From whose estate, together with the entire Janssen collection, acquired by Jacques Goudsti⛦kker, Amsterdam, 1919;

Sarah Saavedra Guani de Hirsch (1916-1997), Buenos Aꦓires, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay;

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie’s, 29 January 1998, lot 17 (as Hals ♚a🧜nd van Delen);

With Richard Green, London, 1999;

From whom acquired.

Tentoonstelling van zeldzame en belangrijke Schilderijen van Oude Meesters. In de kunstzalen der maatschappij “Arti et Amicitiae,” exhibition caꦛtalogue, Am🎃sterdam 1872, p. 13, cat. no. 81 (as Hals);

Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen van Oude Meesters in de zalen van het gothische Paleis in het Noordeinde, exhibiti𝔍on catalogue, The Hague 1881, p. 22, cat. no. 146 (as Hals);

La Collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, exhibition catalogue, The Hague 1919, cat. no🐻. 48, reproduc🧜ed (as Hals);

La Collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, exhibition cat🍰alogue, Copenhagen 1920, cat. no. 47 (as Hals);

T. Blade, The Paintings of Dirck van Delen, Ph.D. dissertation,🦹 University of Minnesota 1976, pp. 30, 130, 133-136, 220, cat. no. 29, reproduced fig. 20 (as Hals and van Delen);

P. Sutton, in Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, P. Sutton (ed.), Philadelphia 1984, p. 206 note 7 (as Hals aꦛnd van Delen);

R. Trnek, Die Holländischen Gemälde des 17. Jahrhunderts in der Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Wien, Vienna 1992, pp. 169-170, 𒅌reproduced fig. 57b (as Hals and van Delen);

B. Vermet, "Tableaux de Dirck van Delen (v. 1604/1605-1671) dans les musées français," in Revue du Louvre 43, no. 3 (1995), ♔p. 3⛄4, under cat. no. 25 (as Hals and van Bassen);

B. Nehlsen-Marten, Dirck Hals 1591-1656, Oeuvre und Entwicklung eines Haarlemer Genremalers📖, Weimar 2003, p. 312, cat. no. 355, reproduced fig. 197 (as Hals an🐻d van Delen);

M. Sitt, in Satire en vermaak, Schilderkunst in der 17e eeuw: Het genrestuk van Frans Hals en zijn tijdgenoten 1610-1670, exhibition catalogue꧋, P. Biesboer and M. Sitt, (eds.), Zwo🃏lle 2003, p. 102, cat. no. 14, reproduced (as Hals and van Delen);

B.M. Vermet, "On the Relations Between Bartholomeus van Bassen and Dirck van Delen and the Role of Their Personal Contact," in A Challenge for Painted Architecture in Early Modern Times, Architecture on Canvas and Fresco Painting, S. Frommel and P. Lombaerde (eds.), Turnhout 2024, pp. 312-313, rep🐲roduced fig. 5 (as Hals and Baꩵrtholomeus van Bassen);

B.M. Vermet, Dirck van Delen, een zeeuwse meester uit de Gouden Eeuw , exhibition catalogue, Zwolle 2024🌼, pp. 46-50, ওreproduced figs. 440, 460 (as Hals and van Bassen).

Amsterdam, Arti et Amicitiae, Tentoonstelling van zeldzame en belangrijke Schilderijen van Oude Meesters, 1872, no. 81;

The Hague, Palais Noordeinde, Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen van Oude Meesters, 1881, no. 46;

The Hague, Pulchri Studio, Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen van Oude Meesters, 1890, no. 36;

The Hague, Pulchri Studio, La Collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, November 1919, no. 48;

Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, La Collection Goudstikker d’Amsterdam, January – February 1920, no. 47;

Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum; Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Satire en vermaak, Het genrestuk van Frans Hals en zijn tijdgenoten 1610-1670, 20 September 2003 – 16 May 2004, no. 14.