c. 1550
Paper support cut into three parts.
diam.: 32.8 cm (12 15/16 in.)
Mrs. Vivian Neal, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1968, lot 121]; to [Heinrich Pilartz, Cologne.] [Sotheby's, London, 9 April 1981, lot 63.] Vermeer Associates Ltd., Brampton, Ontario, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003; The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Anne and John Straus, the Marian H. Phinney Fund, and the Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund, inv. no. 2003.153.
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