Provenance: Jan Frans Beschey, Antwerp (his sale, 21 August 1786, lot. 8, for 231 guilders to Beekmans); private collection, Paris; anonymous sale Paris, Drouot, 7 July 1989, lot. 8; Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York, 1989-1993; purchased with the support of the Rembrandt Association, 1993