Signed, lower right: J Steen [artist's monogram]

July 25, 1804, sold by (van der Schley. . .Vinkeles, Amsterdam, Netherlands) lot 72

1804, purchased by Roos [for 190 florins]

Marten Udink (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

October 28, 1808, sold by (de Vries, Amsterdam, Netherlands) auction Udink, lot 57

1808, purchased by Gruyter [for 86 florins]

1833, (Nieuwenhuys, London, England)

Mrs. Tinet (Kasteel Veltham)

General de Schieter van Lophen (Brussels, Belgium)

1936-1939, acquired by (D. Katz, Dieren, Netherlands)

1939, (Schaeffer Galleries, New York, New York, USA)

1939, purchased by Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

1939-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Smith, J. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters-Supplement. London, 1829, p. 490, no. 46. Westrheene, T. van. Jan Steen: Etude sur l'art en Hollande. The Hague, 1856, p. 152, no. 281. Hofstede de Groot, C. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. London, vol. 1, 1908, p. 168, no. 644. Tentoonstelling Oude Kunst uit het Bezit van den Internationalen Handel. Exh. cat., Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam, 1936, p. 38, cat. 152 (ill.). Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, 1938, cat. 51. Masterpieces of Art. Exh. cat., World's Fair. New York, 1939, cat. 361. Masterpieces of Art from Foreign Collections (European Paintings from the Two World's Fairs). Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1939, p. 18, cat. 48. Valentiner, W.R. "The Fair at Oegstgeest by Jan Steen." Bulletin of the DIA 19, no. 6 (March 1940): pp. 66-69 (ill.). Heppner, A. "The Popular Theatre of the Rederijkers in the Work of Jan Steen and his Contemporaries." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 3 (1939-40): pp. 22-48, pl. 3b. Schoolman, R. and C.E. Slatkin. The Enjoyment of Art in America. Philadelphia and New York, 1942, p. 432, pl. 391. Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 128, no. 757. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of the Whitcomb Gifts. Detroit, 1954, p. 35. Braun, K. Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen. Rotterdam, 1980, p. 94, no. 74 (ill.). [as 1654-1658.] Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art and Rijksmuseum. Washington, D.C. and Amsterdam, 1996, p. 178, (ill.) p. 176 (fig. 1). Bandes, Susan J. Pursuits and Pleasures: Baroque Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Dennos Museum Center, Kalamazoo Art Museum, Kresge Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art. Battle Creek, 2003, pp. 9 (ill.), 38, 39 (ill.). Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 226-227.

Jan Havicksz Steen, The Fair at Oegstgeest, ca. between 1655 and 1660, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 39.673.