Nicolaas Pietersz Berchem

Jacob de Vos (1735-1833), Amsterdam; his sale, Amsterdam, de Vries...Roos, 30-31 October 1833, Album P, lot 5: "Nicolaas Berghem / S. Eenige Landlieden op en bij beladen e zels. Luchtig en meesterlijk met zw. krijt geschetst" (to "de Vries" for 60 fl. on behalf of the great-nephew, Jacob de Vos Jbzn); Jacob de Vos Jbzn (1803-78), Amsterdam (Lugt 1450); his sale, Amsterdam, Roos, Muller..., 22-4 May 1883, probably one of three in lot 46: "Pâtres avec leurs troupeaux" (to "Thibaudeau" for 120 fl.), or one of five in lot 47: "croquis divers" (to "Amsler and Ruthardt" for 30 fl.); George Salting (1835-1909), London (no mark; see Lugt 2260-61); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.