Sleeping Shepherd with Four Sheep, Simon van der Does, 1663 - 1718

…; sale, Lambert ten Kate (1674-1731, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (I. Tirion), 16 June 1732 sqq., Album P, no. 13 (‘Een Schaepherder slapende terwyl zyn Vee wat loof plukt: met de Pen en met roet gewasschen; door V.d.Does.’), fl. 3;{Cf. H. Miedema (ed.), _Kennerschap en de ideale schoonheid. Lambert ten Kate over de tekeningen in zijn verzameling_, Amsterdam 2012, p. 160, based on an annotated copy in the Fondation Custodia, Paris.} …; collection Van Puten (d. c. 1829), Paris (L. 2058);{Not in his sale, Paris (Duchesne/Bonnefons) 14 December 1829 sqq.; probably sold during his lifetime.} …; collection Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de Meyran, Marquis de Lagoy (1764-1829), Aix-en-Provence (L. 1710); ? his sale, Paris (A.-F. Pieri-Bénard), 17 April 1834 sqq., no. 205 (‘Plusiers dessins par Flinck, Koningh, Lerientals, Overbeck, Pinas, Pronk, Waterloo, etc., qui seront vendus en plusiers lots’), fl. 29.50;{Copy RKD.} ; ? anonymous sale, Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts), 23 May 1938 sqq., no. 239;{Copy RMA.}…; sale, Dr Henderik Catharinus Valkema Blouw (1883-1953, Bodegraven), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 2 March 1954 sqq., no. 120, fl. 160, to the museum (L. 2228)

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