...; collection Narcisse Révil (1779-1844), Paris;{According to an inscription on the drawing.} his sale, Paris (B. Bonnefons de Lavialle et al.), 29 (31) March 1842 sqq., no. 222, as Rembrandt (‘Une jeune garçon dirigeant ses pas vers la gauche [...]Croquis à la plume et au bistre. Haut. 13 cent. 6 mill., larg. 10 cent. 5 mill.’), 14.50 frs.;{Copy RKD.} ...; collection Charles Gasc (c. 1822- after 1869), Paris;{According to an inscription on the drawing.} ? his sale, Paris (J.E. Vignères), 17 January 1865, no. 151 (drawings not specified);{Schatborn mistakenly included lot no. 60 of this sale, which is a drawing by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo; P. Schatborn, Catalogus van de Nederlandse tekeningen in het Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, IV: Tekeningen van Rembrandt, zijn onbekende leerlingen en navolgers/Drawings by Rembrandt, his Anonymous Pupils and Followers, coll. cat. The Hague 1985, no. 105.} ...; sale, Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel (1820-99, Paris) and Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913, Edinburgh and London), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 20 November 1882 sqq., no. 167, as Rembrandt, fl. 31, to the dealer Van Gogh, Paris;{Copy RKD.} from whom purchased by Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague, after 1900;{Hofstede de Groot notes, KB.} by whom donated to the museum, 1906, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum (L. 2228), 1930
