Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Die Gemäldesammlung in der Kaiserlichen Ermitage zu St. Petersburg, nebst Bemerkungen über andere dortige Kunstsammlungen, (München: F. Bruckmann, 1864).
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\n\tCount Heinrich von Brühl (1700-1763), Dresden; sold to Empress Catherine II (d. 1796) via Dmitri Alekseyevich Golitsyn in 1768 for the Imperial Hermitage, St. Petersburg; State Hermitage Museum, Petrograd/Leningrad; transferred from museum to the Soviet government for export on February 19, 1930 [1]. Galerie Hugo Helbing, Munich, March 2, 1932, lot 484, sold to Linger(?), Prague [2]. Axel Wenner-Gren (Uddevalla, Sweden 1881-1961 Stockholm), by 1940; his sale, Sotheby’s London, March 24, 1965, lot 23; Alfred Brod Gallery, London (in 1965); Herman Shickman Gallery, New York (in 1967); Elias and Frances Wolf, Philadelphia (by 1979); gift to the Princeton University Art Museum.\n
\n\n\t[1] Letter from Irina Sokolova, Curator of Dutch Paintings, State Hermitage Museum, January 9, 2003\n
\n\n\t[2] According to annotated sale catalogue held by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich\n
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