Provenance
1Charles Delbecque, member of the «Chambre des Représentants» Brussels • by 1886 Exposition de tableaux de maîtres anciens, (exh. cat.) Académie Royale de Belgique, Brussels 1886, no. 201.
2Eduard August Veltman Bloemendaal • by 1935 until ca. 1951 Cinq siècles d’art, (exh. cat.) Exposition universelle et internationale, Brussels 1935, no. 766; Le paysage hollandais au XVIIe siècle, (exh. cat.) Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris 1950, no. 80; J. F. Heijlbroek, Frits Lugt, 1884–1970, Living for Art, A Biography, Fondation Custodia (ed.), Paris 2012, p. 205 et al., regarding the Veltman collection, to which Frits Lugt acted as an advisor.
3Otto Wertheimer Basel • ca. 1951–1952 Acquired from the above, Heijlbroek, as above, n. (2), pp. 337–338, regarding the purchase of most of the Veltman collection by Wertheimer.
4M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. New York • 1952–1954 Acquired from the above on 29 February 1952, Getty Research Institute, Santa Monica (California) Knoedler Gallery Archive, Stock Book 10, p. 74, no. 4853; AStEGB, Invoice from M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 26 May 1954, for two paintings, Rembrandt, «Still Life with Dead Game» (Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, inv. 158, and Ruysdael, «Au Bord du Fleuve».
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 27 May 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for a total of $ 125.000 for the two paintings, Invoice as above, n. (3), and AStEGB, Letter from Charles R. Henschel [Head of M. Knoedler & Co., Inc.], New York, to Emil Bührle, 27 May 1954, acknowledging receipt of the check; Stock Book as above, n. (3).
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 163.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
