Seated Shepherd, Gerrit Berckheyde, 1648 - 1698

...; Jan Pietersz Zomer (1641-1724), Amsterdam{Possibly in his 1720-24 catalogue, Album 19 (‘(…) _aardige Beeldjes, zoo Mannen als Vrouwtjes, na ’t leven konstig getekent, door Job en Gerrit Berkheyde, Jan Bot, Bamboots, en W. Schellinx_’) or Album 20 (‘(…) _Aardige Beeltjes van Jan Both, en veel van Bega, en van Job en Gerrit Berkheyden_ (…).}; Dirk Vis Blokhuyzen (1799-1869), Rotterdam; his sale, Rotterdam (D.A. Lamme and A.C. van Wijngaarden), 23 October 1871 sqq., no. 68 (‘_G. Berkheyde. Etude de paysans. Deux dessins. A la sanguine_’), fl. 1, to Carel Vosmaer (1826-88), The Hague;{Copy RKD.} by descent to Carel Johannes Jacob Gualtherus Vosmaer (1907-86), Leiden; purchased from his heirs, with the support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhard Fonds, the Rijksmuseum-Stichting, and De Ster Holding BV, by the museum (L. 2228), 1989

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