Provenance
1Private collection Brussels (?) Manke no. 48.
2Kunsthandlung Fritz Rothmann Berlin Manke no. 48.
3Prof. Dr. Carl Bilfinger Halle & Heidelberg • by 1925 Gemälde alter Meister aus Berliner Besitz, Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein (Akademie der Künste), Berlin 1925, no. 475 • Rudolf Smend, «Carl Bilfinger †», in Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (20) 1959/60.
4Dr. Fritz Nathan Zurich • by 1953 AStEGB, Entry Book II, 15 October 1953.
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 13 December 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 14.000, AStEGB, Entry Book as above, n. (4), with reference to the date of purchase, and handwritten Note by Emil Bührle, listing paintings Bührle was negotiating with Dr. Fritz Nathan, including the de Witte, priced at CHF 14.000.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 168.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich