Private collection, Lower Rhine, in 1926; sold 1926 to Walter Kurt Rohde, Berlin; sold May 1926 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[1] sold December 1926 to Andrew W. Mellon [1835-1937], Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; deeded 30 March 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA. [1] Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Los Angeles: reel 154, box 299, folder 14; copies in NGA curatorial files. See also Jonathan Lopez' book (_The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren_, New York, 2008: 54, 58-61, 64-69, 86, 94-96, 103, 112-115), and article (“The Early Vermeers of Han van Meegeren,” _Apollo_ [July-August 2008]: 22-29).