Captain Harold R. Wright, London and Bremen, Germany;[1] sold August 1927 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold November 1927 to Andrew W. Mellon [1855-1937], Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.;[2] deeded 30 March 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA. [1] Wright’s connection to the painting is discussed by Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. ("The Story of Two Vermeer Forgeries." In _Shop Talk: Studies in Honor of Seymour Slive, Presented on His Seventy-fifth Birthday_. Cambridge, Mass., 1995: 271, 273-275), and explored in depth by Jonathan Lopez in his book (_The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren_, New York, 2008: 3-5, 22-86, 101-111, 261 n., 262 n., 265 n., 267 n., 268 n.), his article (“The Early Vermeers of Han van Meegeren,” _Apollo_ (July-August 2008): 22-29), and his e-mail of 7 November 2015 to Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., copy in NGA curatorial files. [2] Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Los Angeles: reel 155, box 300, folder 3; copies in NGA curatorial files. According to Edward Grasman, "Vitale Bloch: the early years," _RKD Bulletin_ 2010/2: 5, Bloch was also involved in this sale on behalf of the Rothmann gallery in Berlin.