File:Jan Steen - The Prayer Before The Meal, 1660.jpg
Johannes Enschedé, printer, Haarlem;
His deceased sale, Haarlem, Jelgersma/Van der Vinne, 30 May 1786, lot 22;
Anonymous sale, Alkmaar, Hartemink van Horstok, 17 November 1788, lot 1, for 700 Florins to Du Tour;
B. Ocke, Curate of the new church of Sint Lodewijk, Leiden;
His deceased sale, Leiden, 21 April 1817, lot 128, (described as on canvas), for 440 Florins to Ocke (presumably bought in);
Anonymous sale (Engelberts and others), Amsterdam, Van der Schley/ Roos/ De Vries, 25 August 1817, lot 91, (described as on canvas), for 275 Florins to auctioneer De Vries;
C.E.E. Baron Collot d’Escury, Leeuwarden;
His deceased sale, Leeuwarden, Proost, 17-18 October 1831, lot 33 (with dimensions 22 by 18 1/2 in.);
Mr. Chaplin, London, 1831, by whom imported from The Netherlands (according to Smith, who valued it at 250 Guineas);
James Morrison (d.1857), 57 Upper Harley Street, London, by 1848;
Probably his widow, Mary Anne Morrison (d. 1887);
Their son, Charles Morrison (d.1909), Basildon Park, Berks, (Picture no. 34, according to a label on the reverse of the frame), by 1894;
By inheritance to his brother, Walter Morrison, Basildon Park;
Who settled the inheritance on his nephew Col. James Archibald Morrison, Basildon Park (until sold in 1929), 1910;
By inheritance to his daughter Mary Morrison, 1934, who had married in 1924 John Henry Dent-Brocklehurst, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire;
By inheritance to Geoffrey Mark Dent-Brocklehurst, Sudeley Castle;
Thence by inheritance at Sudeley Castle. Sold Sotheby's London 5 December 2012 for 5.641.250 GBP
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Source/Photographer
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l12036/lot.9.html
signed and dated on the placard on the back wall below the inscription: JAN STEEN 1660 inscribed on the placard:- Drie dingen wensch ick en niet meer. Voor al te minnen Godt den heer, Maar wens om tgeen de wijste badt Een eerlyck leven op dit dal-
In deze drie bestaet het al.- Jan Steen catalog raisonné, 1908, 375
- Jan Steen catalog raisonné, 1954, 38
- Jan Steen catalog raisonné, 1908, 397b
- Jan Steen catalogue raisonné, 1833, 185
- http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l12036/lot.9.html (English)
- https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l12036/lot.9.lotnum.html
- Art in the Christian Tradition ID: 56958
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