Certificate:
Dr. Walther Bernt, 28.7.1968.

Provenance:
- Probably collection of Dr. Max Josef Schüler, Graz.
- Probably auction of the estate of Dr. Max Josef Schüler, Wawra, Vienna, 3.2.1909, Lot 96.
- Collection of Janos Biehn, Budapest.
- Became property of the Hungarian Republic, restituted to the owners in 1919/1920
- Franke art salon, Baden-Baden until 1980.
- Thence in a European private collection.

Exhibited:
A köztulajdonba vett műkincsek első kiállítása (first exhibition of artworks in public ownership) Kunsthalle, Budapest, 1919, no. 53.

Literature:
Laszlo Mravik: The "Sacco di Budapest" and depredation of Hungary 1938–1949: works of art missing from Hungary as a result of the second world war: looted, smuggled, captured, lost and destroyed art works, books and archival documents : preliminary and provisional catalogue, Budapest 1998, no. 3884, p. 157.


A typical work of Jacob Salomonsz. van Ruysdael circa 1651 archived at the RKD.