Private collection, Berlin, by 1918; (Fritsche, Berlin); purchased c. 1952 by Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Look, Washington, D.C.;[1] gift 1979 to NGA. [1] In a letter to Sturla Gudlaugsson, Institute for Art History, The Hague, dated 22 January 1970 (copy in NGA curatorial files), Earl Look writes: "In about 1952, I bought it from the well-known Oriental art dealer, Herr Fritsche, in Berlin. Fritsche told me that he had obtained it from the estate of a former, pre-World War I Director of the Berlin Art Museum."