St Jerome Reading in his Study, Willem Drost (attributed to), c. 1650 - c. 1655

…; sale, Freiherr Max von Eelking (1813-78, Meiningen), Cologne (J.M. Heberle), 3 June 1902 sqq., no. 143, as Rembrandt, DM 700, to Johannes Christian Magnus Rump (1861-1932), Copenhagen (L. 3401);{Copy RKD.} his sale, Berlin (Amsler and Ruthardt), 25 May 1908 sqq., no. 419, as Rembrandt, DM 620, to Johan II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1840-1929), Vaduz;{Copy RKD.} by descent to his grandnephew, Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1909-89), Vaduz;{According to L. 4398.} from whom, as manner of Rembrandt, fl. 500, through the mediation of the dealer W. Feilchenfeldt, to the museum (L. 2228), 1948

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