Comte de Bousies, Brussels [according to a fact sheet in the curatorial file, presumably provided by Knoedler; an annotation on the mount of a photograph in the Friedländer Archive, at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, supports this provenance, though the name is transcribed as “de Bourier”]. Probably Eric-Emil Lyndhurst, Brussels, by January 1950 [the mount of the photograph mentioned above indicates that Friedländer’s opinion was provided for “Lyndhurst, Brussels” on January 5, 1950; whether the collector and dealer Eric-Emil Lyndhurst owned the picture or handled it as an agent is unclear; it was not among his stock confiscated during World War II, according to letter of 22 January, 2002 from Bart Eeman, Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs, in curatorial file]. Sale, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, May 21, 1951, no. 115, pl. 7, as Patinir. Knoedler, New York, by 1952 [Lent by Knoedler to 1952 exhibition]; sold to the Art Institute, 1953.