T. Emmerson, London (by 1842);
Comte R. de Corneliessen, Brussels;
His sale, Brussels, 11 May 1857, lot 57;
Sale, Paris, Gilkinet, 18 April 1863, lot 33, for 7700 florins;
Sale, Paris, J. A. Tardieu, 10-11 May 1867, lot 41, for 6000 florins;
Lippmann von Lissingen, Vienna;
His sale, Paris, 16 March 1876, lot 32, for 28,100 florins,
George Field, London, by 1888;
His estate sale, London, Christie's, 10 June 1893, lot 30;
With M. Colnaghi, London;
With Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, by 1894;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller & Cie., 30 April 1907, lot 136;
Henri Lehman, Paris;
His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 12-13 June 1925, lot 274;
H. Becker, Dortmund, by 1954;
With Alfred Brod, London, by 1958 (all of the above as by Adriaen van Ostade).

Vienna, Österreichischen Galerie, Gemälde alter Meister aus Wiener Privatbesitz, 1873, no. 171;
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy Exhibition, 1888, no. 115;
Dortmund, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund, Austellung Meisterwerke alter Malerei, 1954, no. 45;
London, Alfred Brod Gallery, Annual Autumn Exhibition of Old Masters, 1958, no. 36;
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Northern Baroque Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Weldon, no. 17;
Allentown, Allentown Art Museum, Seventeenth Century Painters of Haarlem, 1965, no. 54;
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Weldon, 1966, no. 27;
Birmingham, Birmingham Museum of Art, The Golden Age of Dutch Painting, 1995, no. 14;
New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, In the Eye of the Beholder: Northern Baroque Paintings from the Collection of Henry H. Weldon, 1997, no. 35;
Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, An Eye for Detail, 17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Collection of Henry H. Weldon, 20 June-5 September 1999, no. 34. 

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., vol. I, London 1829, cat. no. 111;
Sedelmeyer Gallery, Catalogue of 100 Paintings, Paris 1894, cat. no. 27, reproduced;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné..., vol. III, London 1910, cat. no. 850;
Der Cicerone, vol. 17, 1925, p. 152;
N.T. Minty (ed.), In the Eye of the Beholder: Northern Baroque Paintings from the Collection of Henry H. Weldon, exhibition catalogue, New Orleans 1997, cat. no. 35;
N.T. Miny and J. Spicer (eds.), An Eye for Detail, 17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Collection of Henry H. Weldon, exhibition catalogue, Baltimore 1999, cat. no. 34 (all of the above as by Adriaen van Ostade). 

This picture is executed on a single piece of oak panel which is uncradled and beveled on all four sides. The panel itself is in healthy condition, flat and stable. The paint layer is generally healthy there though there are numerous brushstroke size retouches visible under ultraviolet, light mostly applied for reinforcement and they appear to be applied well. The picture could be hung in its current state. In a carved giltwood frame.
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