Provenance
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, by 1926.
Dr. M. Mierowsky, Berlin.
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, on loan, 1948.
with Wildenstein, London, 1959.
Literature
M.J. Friedländer, Die Altniederländische Malerei, Leiden, 1934, IX, p. 158, no. 241, as 'Circle of Patinir.'
H. Skipp, 'Current shows and comments', Apollo, LXX, no. 414, August 1959, pp. 13-14, as 'Patinir'.
R.A. Koch, Joachim Patinir, Princeton, 1968, pp. 46-7, 82, no. 30a, fig. 65.
H.G. Franz, Niederländische Landschaftsmalerei im Zeitalter des Manierismus, Graz, 1969, II, p. 13, fig. 13.
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, New York, 1973, IXb, p. 123, no. 241, pl. 229, fig. 241, as 'Patinir'.
H. Friedmann, A Bestiary for Saint Jerome: Animal Symbolism in European Religious Art, Washington, D.C., 1980, p. 338, as 'Workshop of Patinir'.
Exhibited
London, Wildenstein, Paintings by Rembrandt, Boucher, Cézanne, Hals, Guardi, Gauguin and others, 17 June-1 August 1959, no. 22.
London, Wildenstein, Religious Themes in Painting from the 14th Century Onwards, 16 March-5 May 1962, no. 32.
Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten, De eeuw van Brueghel: de schilderkunst in België in de 16de eeuw, 27 September-24 November 1963, no. 187.