
Signed and dated at lower right, in brown ink, "BB(in ligature)reenbergh / 1629". Inscribed on the verso, in graphite: "4 / 72"; below this, "Breemberg B180"; and at lower right corner, "Wellesley Coll / 569-0417" (i.e., the lot no. in the Wellesley sale).
Watermark: Star or sun within a circle, surmounted by a cross (similar to Heawood, no. 3883: Rome, 1646). Star with six rays or points and circle in center, placed centered on chain line.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 45.
The drawing and III-214a, as well as III-214c, were once together in the Wellesley collection, along with another drawing whose whereabouts are unknown, all attributed to Breenbergh and all once owned by Charles Fairfax Murray.
Wellesley, Henry, 1791-1866, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.