Adriaen van Ostade
Signed at the lower right, in brown ink, "Av.(in ligature) ostade".
Inscribed on the verso, at lower left, in the hand of Goll van Franckenstein, in brown ink, "N 3504"; below t this, in another hand, also in brown ink, "CJ Nieuwenhuys 1840"; at lower left corner, in still another hand, in black ink, "No.["o" in superscript] 39-" [crossed out]; and at center (upside down), in graphite, "49".
Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam, fragment (similar to Heawood, no. 429 or 365: 1665 or Amsterdam, 1685).
Testas de Jonge, Pieter, 1702-1784, former owner.
Broyel, Abraham van, d. ca. 1759, former owner.
Marsbag, Daniel, d. ca. 1775, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, J. (Johann), 1722-1785, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, Johan, 1756-1821, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, Pieter Hendrik, 1787-1832, former owner.
Claussin, Ignace-Joseph de, 1795-1844, former owner.
Nieuwenhuys, C. J., 1799-1883, former owner.
Holford, Robert Stayner, 1808-1892, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 1837-1913, former owner.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 131, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 192.