Minerva in her Study, Ferdinand Bol, after Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1636

…; ? sale, Pierre Fouquet (1729-1800, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 13 April 1801 sqq., Album G, no. 22 (‘Een Vrouw in prachtige kleeding, zittende voor een tafel, met een tapytkleed bedekt, rustende met de linkerhand op een boek; verder een globe en krygstuig, meesterlyk, fraay met dito geteekend [in pen and India ink], door denzelven [F. Boll]’), fl. 3:50:-, to the dealer W. Gruyter, Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} …; ? sale, Johann August Gottlieb Weigel (1773-1846, Leipzig), Stuttgart (H.G. Gutekunst), 15 May 1883 sqq., no. 112, DM 20, to the dealer G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart;{Copy RMA.} ? from whom acquired by Edward Habich (1818-1901), Boston and Kassel;{According to an inscription on the drawing.} his sale, Stuttgart (H.G. Gutekunst), 27 April 1899 sqq, no. 107, DM 39, to the dealer G. Mayer, Paris;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Bernard Houthakker (1884-1963), Amsterdam (L. 1272), by 1932;{Amsterdam 1932, p. 300.} his sale, Amsterdam (Sotheby’s), 17 November 1975 sqq., no. 121, fl. 5000, to the museum (L. 2228), with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Prins Bernhardfonds

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