Bentley Lyonel John, 3rd Baron Tollemache (1883-1955), Peckforton Castle, Cheshire, United Kingdom
His sale, London, Christie’s, 15 May 1953, lot 115
[Purchased by Agnew & Sons, London]
[Sold to F. Kleinberger & Co., New York, 22 June 1956] [1]
Sold to Sparrowhawk Corp., California, 6 August 1956 [2]
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carter, Los Angeles, by 1957
Gift to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1957
Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972

[1] Metropolitan Museum of Art, F. Kleinberger Galleries records,
B-Unknown-1: https://cdm16028.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll23/id/17255/rec/66.
[2] Kleinberger records identify Edward Carter with Sparrowhawk Corp.

Christie, Manson & Woods, Catalogue of Pictures by Old Masters: The Property of the Trustees of the Tollemache Estates…, Auction Catalogue, London: Christie, Manson & Woods, May 15, 1953, pg. 22, lot 115.

Grieg, T.P., “In the Auction Room,” The Connoisseur 132 (September 1953), pg. 58.

“Seventeenth Century Dutch Paintings in the Museum’s Collections,” California Palace of the Legion of Honor Bulletin 24 (August 1966), no. 11, repr., unpaginated.

Schatborn, Peter, “Olieverfschetsen van Dirck Hals,” Bulletin van Het Rijksmuseum 21, no. 3 (1973), pgs. 109–110, fig. 3, 115n1, 116n9.

Brown, Christopher, Art in Seventeenth Century Holland, exh. cat., London: National Gallery, 1976, pg. 47, under no. 47.

Schatborn, Peter, Dutch Figure Drawings from the Seventeenth Century, exh. cat., Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1981, pg. 74, repr. fig. 4.

Potterton, Homan, Dutch Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland: A Complete Catalogue, Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland, 1986, pgs. 33, 33n16.

Welu, James A., and Pieter Biesboer, eds., Judith Leyster: A Dutch Master and Her World, exh. cat., Zwolle: Waanders Publishers with Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 1993, pgs. 148, 149, fig. 4h, under entry no. 4 by Cynthia Kortenhorst-von Bogendorf Rupprath.

Christie’s, Important Old Master Paintings, Auction catalogue, New York: Christie’s, January 29, 1998, pg. 34, under entry for lot 17.