Zittende man met hoed en mantel, naar rechts, Jacob Adriaensz Backer, 1618 - 1651

…; sale, Willem Nicolaas Lantsheer (1826-83, The Hague) and Jeronimo de Vries Jerzn (1808-80, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 3 June 1884 sqq., no. 321, as Gerard ter Borch (‘G. Terburg. Etude d’Homme, assis. Pierre noire sur papier bleu, rehauss’e de blanc. - H. 18, L. 14’), fl. 52, to William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2634);^[Copy RKD.] his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 637, as Gerard ter Borch (‘Gerard Terborch. Portrait d’homme, assis. Pierre noire sur papier bleu, rehaussé de blanc. - H. 18, l. 14 cent.’), fl. 10, to the dealer F. Muller, Amsterdam;^[Copy RKD.] … ; collection Louis Deglatigny (1854-1936), Rouen (L. 1768a); his sale (Quatrième Vente), Paris (E. Ader), 4 November 1937 sqq., no. 18 (‘Backer (Jacob-Adriaensz). Portrait d’homme assis, de trois quarts à droite. Pierre noire avec rehauts de blanc, sur papier bleu. H. 0m182; L. 0m139. Au verso, timbre de la collection W. Pitcairn Knowles’), 550 frs, to the dealer L. Huteau, possibly for René Préjelan (1877-1968);{Copy RKD; Ministère de la culture, Archive de Paris, "A. Paris D42 E3 179", Vente succ. Delatigny, p. 2, no. 18.} … ; from the Galerie de Bayser, Paris, fl. 131.70 to the museum (L. 2228), 1950

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