A Housewife in an inner Courtyard Cleaning Fish, Hendrik Potuyl, 1639 - 1649

Inv.; sale, Mr G. Th. A. W. baron van Brienen de Grootelindt(The Hague), Paris (Etienne le Roy), 7 May 1865, no. 25, fl. 800;{Copy RMA.}…; sale, Château le R…[possibly Château le Ruble or Château le Rocquencourt], Paris (Drouôt), 20 February 1914, no. 34, as Adriaen van Ostade, frs. 3.900, to the dealer A.S. Drey, München;{Copy RKD;Note RKD.} …; collection Dominicus Antonius Josephus Kessler (1855-1939) and Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann (1868-1947), Kapelle op den Bosch, near Mechelen;{Note RMA.} donated, with xx other objects, by Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann to the museum, 1940

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